Every data breach is bad news, but when it’s a bank, the concerns magnify. Reports about the Capital One hack of 106 million accounts are confusing, but still worrying. The bank says “no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99% of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” but the alleged hacker “is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access to 140,000 U.S. Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers, and 80,000 bank account numbers.” [Quick numeracy note to the bank’s PR people: A number less than 1% of 106 million could still be more than a million people.]
www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html
