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Capital One Data Breach Compromises Data of Over 100 Million

Capital One Data Breach

Source: Emily Flitter and Karen Weise
Affiliation: The New York Times

This article sheds light on a 2019 data breach of data from Capital One bank. The article explains how the suspect, Paige Thompson, was identified by the FBI through her online posts. Thompson was a software engineer for Amazon Web Services, the platform that hosted the Capital One database that was breached.

Keywords: Computer Science , Hacking , Tech Ethics