Thursday, August 1, 2019

Capital One, 100M customer info stolen - All it took was a misconfigured firewall and an experienced software engineer.


Misconfiguration is something that  in any security system/application because Vulnerabilities are easier to find compared to misconfiguration.

Approximately 100 million of the affected customers are in the US, with the remaining six million in Canada

The Capital One breach was discovered on 19 July 2019. The hack took place on 22 and 23 March.

On Monday, the FBI arrested the person allegedly responsible: Paige Thompson, a 33-year-old former systems engineer

https://www.verdict.co.uk/capital-one-breach/

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