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July Data Breach Prompts Transfer Of Capital One Security Chief

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Capital One ’s chief information security officer (CISO), Michael Johnson, is being transferred to a new position following the bank’s colossal cyberattack in July, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (Nov. Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach.

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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. Six million consumers in Canada had their data exposed by the hack. Capital One uses the cloud hosting services of AWS.

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Data Lake Houses: Getting Your Bank Data Right

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When it comes to future success in data management in banking, the same rules apply. Your strength is your data, and your success comes from defending your data and applying your data at various angles – to credit, fraud, marketing, and understanding both your employees and customers. Capital Is Cheap.

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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. I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest,” Ms.

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Lessons from the Capital One Data Breach

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When most financial executives read the headline “Capital One Data Breach,” they had two thoughts: How is this going to impact the financial sector? They know the aftermath of a data breach is like experiencing every circle of Dante’s hell. In this case, information about Capital One ’s customers.

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UniCredit Says None Of Its Data Was Compromised In Capital One Breach

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UniCredit , in a memo to its staff on Thursday, said that an internal investigation showed no evidence that a recent data breach at Capital One involved any of its own data, according to a report by Reuters. She is thought to have stolen data on more than 100 million Capital One customers from an Amazon cloud service.

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The Cloud Surrounding Banks’ Data Security (In The Cloud, Too)

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In the wake of the Capital One data breach that exposed data tied to 100 million individuals in the United States comes a warning that there really are not any places to hide. The warning comes as banks have been enlisting the aid of tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, while bringing operations and data to the cloud.

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