Capital One data breach could have affected six million Canadian bank accounts

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a woman for stealing tens of millions of sensitive customer records from Capital One, potentially affecting nearly six million Canadians, The Washington Post reported.

The financial corporation said that about 140,000 social security numbers of its credit card customers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised.

In a news release, the bank said that in total, “this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately six million in Canada.”

The Washington Post reported that the Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson, was arrested on a charge of computer fraud and abuse, according to court records.

The article noted that this is one of the largest data breaches to hit a financial services firm.

“While I am grateful that the perpetrator has been caught, I am deeply sorry for what has happened,” said Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One’s chairman and chief executive, in the Washington Post article. “I sincerely apologize for the understandable worry this incident must be causing those affected and I am committed to making it right.”

The problem was alerted on July 17th and the bank investigated and confirmed that there was a vulnerability.

Source: CNBC, The Washington Post

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