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On Monday night, Capital One and its customers got some very bad news. The company had been breached, spilling hundreds of thousands of social security numbers and account details into public view. The New York Attorney General is already investigating whether Capital One is negligent, but the broader story is familiar: a big company let a lot of sensitive data go missing, and customers bore most of the risk.
But the closer you look, the stranger the story is. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson aka “Erratic,” was caught and charged at the same time the breach became public, and she didn’t seem interested in covering her tracks. We don’t know exactly what she did with the data once she got it, but she doesn’t fit the profile of most…
The Capital One breach is more complicated than it looks
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