Capital One Financial announced on July 29 that a hacker obtained the personal information of approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately six million individuals in Canada.
In comparison, the data breach of credit-reporting agency Equifax—the largest-ever breach of consumer data—impacted approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. In a statement announcing the data breach, Capital One said “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.”
