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Capital One systems breached by Seattle woman, U.S. says

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Capital One Financial Corp. lost data from as many as tens of millions of credit card applications after a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud-computing company server, federal prosecutors in Seattle said.

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Former Amazon worker is accused in cloud hack of Capital One

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Capital One Financial said data from about 100 million people in the U.S. was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused a Seattle woman identified by Amazon as one of its former cloud service employees of breaking into the bank’s server.

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Hacker Arrested In Capital One Breach Affecting 100M+ 

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A former Amazon systems engineer working for Capital One is said to be the woman behind a breach that accessed the data of over 100 million people. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. Capital One revealed the massive data breach in a news release on July 29, 2019.

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Postmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area

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The company is boosting the number of engineers it is hiring in and around the Seattle, Washington area. The delivery company has nine openings for engineers around Seattle, according to a report in GeekWire , citing job listings at Postmates. With that raise, it has a valuation of more than $1.85

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Italian Bank UniCredit To Investigate Capital One Data Hack

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One of Italy’s most well-known banks, UniCredit, said that it was going to start its own probe into the Capital One data breach, according to Reuters. . “On On July 30, UniCredit became aware that its name has been mentioned in relation to the Capital One issue,” the bank said in a statement on Wednesday (July 31). Reuters reported.

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Data Dive: The Uncertain Future Edition, MoviePass, Credit Cards And Seattle Taxes

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We’ve got 17 months’ worth of cash without further raises of capital,” the executive said. The paper noted that American Express, Capital One, Citigroup, Discover Financial and Synchrony Financial had a median return on their assets of 2.1 Seattle Taxation Change of Heart.

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Corporate Card Data Spared In Capital One Hack

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Corporate credit card data was not exposed in the massive Capital One data breach that came to light earlier this week, according to Business Travel News reports. While customers of Capital One’s commercial banking division were not affected, reports noted that small business customers were affected by the breach.

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