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Capital One statement on data breach
- naiaokami 7y agoWhat's in your wallet? :P
- fma 7y agoMore like... What's in their wallet.
- ModernMech 7y agoMore like... who's in your wallet?
- tehjoker 7y agoSkillful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Détournement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Détournement
- naiaokami 7y ago"What's in your wallet?" "idk somebody else's social"
- tictok4 7y ago>Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised. Cool, just other stuff, such as name, address, income, credit score, transaction history, payment history, ya know, nothing too important or personal.. Arguably the least important data element is the account number...
- fitzroy 7y agoMoreover, less than 0.0000000000000001 of the statically-likely-to-exist life forms in the known galaxies were affected by this incident. Nothing to see here.
- macinjosh 7y agoFrom the criminal complaint: >A firewall misconfiguration permitted commands to reach and be executed Obviously this person committed a criminal act, however, Capital One should also shoulder responsibility for not securing customer data. I have a feeling we'd be waiting a long time for accountability on C1's part.
- Deimorz 7y agoI always love seeing the strange little PR downplay methods that companies decide to use. This one's got the appropriately bland and information-less choice of url/title with "Facts 2019" as well as: (large bold text) No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: (small text) Well, other than the 140,000 and 80,000 that were compromised. Oh and also the 1 million Canadian ones.
- different_sort 7y agoI laughed out loud when I read that, as did my girlfriend.
- cruig 7y agoDid huckabee sanders draft this? It’s also the bottom of the page... of course.
- dang 7y agoCurrent thread on this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20560342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20560342
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- bitminer 7y ago"The FBI has arrested the person responsible for this cyber incident. " Good ole USA. Convict first, have a trial later.
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