A Seattle-area woman has been arrested in connection with a newly-disclosed Capital One data breach that impacted more than 100 million people.
A Seattle-area woman was arrested on Monday morning in connection with a newly-disclosed Capital One data breach that impacted more than 100 million people.
"Capital One immediately fixed the configuration vulnerability that this individual exploited and promptly began working with federal law enforcement," the statement said."Based on our analysis to date, this event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada."
Paige Thompson, who goes by the nickname"erratic," was arrested on one count of computer fraud and abuse, according to court documents filed in the Western District of Washington on Monday. Some of the information was encrypted, according to court documents, but"tens of millions" of credit card applications were not.
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