Capital One breach exposes data on 106 million people
29 Jul 2019
Capital One discloses that a hacker accessed data on around 106 million people in the US and Canada from its cloud environment.
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Capital One discloses that a hacker accessed data on around 106 million people in the US and Canada from its cloud environment.
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