Capital One statement on data breach
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Capital One statement on data breach
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Re: Capital One statement on data breach
#2What's in your wallet? :P
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#3>Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised.
Cool, just other stuff, such as name, address, income, credit score, transaction history, payment history, ya know, nothing too important or personal..
Arguably the least important data element is the account number...
Re: Capital One statement on data breach
#4What's in your wallet? :P
More like... What's in their wallet.
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#5From the criminal complaint:
>A firewall misconfiguration permitted commands to reach and be executed
Obviously this person committed a criminal act, however, Capital One should also shoulder responsibility for not securing customer data. I have a feeling we'd be waiting a long time for accountability on C1's part.
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#7I always love seeing the strange little PR downplay methods that companies decide to use. This one's got the appropriately bland and information-less choice of url/title with "Facts 2019" as well as:
(large bold text) No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than:
(small text) Well, other than the 140,000 and 80,000 that were compromised. Oh and also the 1 million Canadian ones.
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#8>Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised. Cool, just other stuff, such as name, address, income, credit score, transaction history, payment history, ya know, nothing too important or personal.. Arguably the least important data element is the account number...
Moreover, less than 0.0000000000000001 of the statically-likely-to-exist life forms in the known galaxies were affected by this incident. Nothing to see here.
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#9Current thread on this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20560342
Re: Capital One statement on data breach
#10I always love seeing the strange little PR downplay methods that companies decide to use. This one's got the appropriately bland and information-less choice of url/title with "Facts 2019" as well as: (large bold text) No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: (small text) Well, other than the 140,000 and 80,000 that were compromised. Oh and also the 1 million Canadian ones.
I laughed out loud when I read that, as did my girlfriend.