How to protect yourself from fraud even if you're not a Capital One customer investinyou (In partnership with acorns.)
You also can initiate a short-term fraud alert, which lasts one year. These alerts are different from freezes: Under a fraud alert, a lender seeking to approve an application must first contact you to verify the request is not from an imposter.
Capital One said that for current customers, among the data stolen were about 140,000 Social Security numbers and roughly 80,000 bank account numbers of its customers who have secured credit cards. Capital One's breach disclosure comes about a week after Equifax announced a settlement with authorities over its 2017 data breach. In that instance, about 148 million consumers' personal data were stolen, including names, birthdates and Social Security numbers.
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