Remember the Capital One breach?
We did, though we felt sure it had happened a long time ago.
Indeed, when we checked, it had: the story first broke almost three years ago, back in July 2019.
At the time, the company reported:
Capital One Financial Corporation announced […] that on July 19, 2019, it determined there was unauthorized access by an outside individual who obtained certain types of personal information relating to people who had applied for its credit card products and to Capital One credit card customers.
And we noted that:
So far, there are no details to suggest what sort of vulnerability was exploited, and therefore no indication of what has now been changed and how permanent or effective the fixes might be.
