106 million US and Canadian Capital One accounts compromised

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Former AWS engineer, named as Paige Thompson, arrested over Capital One security breach that took advantage of a misconfigured firewall to access accounts stored in S3 bucket

Capital One has warned that the personal information of 106 million Americans and Canadians have been exposed in a data breach that occurred in March and April this year. A former Amazon Web Ser...

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