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Capital One Bank Announces many customers were affected of the hack

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Capital One Bank a credit card company reported that a hacker got access in their computer. It gets the information of their 100 million current customers and new application data. The Virginia based bank say that they notice of their computer problem. Once they found out, they immediately reported to the authority to have some investigation. Their July 19 system has a vulnerability in processing the data that’s the time the hacker got access. Almost 140,000 of their current customer, the hacker got all the information. The data like credit card scores and balances and their Social Security number.

 

The FBI gets quick action and arrested the suspect in Seattle, according to the report. The Capital One Bank said that all the information that hacked will be used for fraud. The investigation is still continuing. So, to protect their customer the Capital One offer a free credit monitoring service for all those affected. To make sure the customers will not suffer loss. The information breach affected 100 million in the US and 6 million in Canada. With this situation, it gives them double protection in their system both in the US and in Canada. Thus, the authority still continues to investigate what the hacker will do with the information they hacked. The bank gives assurance to its customer to protect them as long as they can.

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