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Capital One Suffers Massive Data Breach


Capital One Financial has been the target of a data breach that has impacted 6 million Canadians.

A hacker obtained Social Security and bank account numbers.

After news of the hacking became public, the bank's stock fell 6% at the opening of trading on Tuesday.

Paige A. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

Thompson was a systems engineer at Amazon Web Services between 2015 and 2016.


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