Capital One Doesn’t Have to Hand Over PwC Report on Cloud Hack

Capital One Financial Corp. doesn’t have to turn over a consulting firm’s report on the root cause of a cloud hack that exposed the data of about 100 million people in the U.S., a federal magistrate judge said.

The bank resisted giving the report from PricewaterhouseCoopers to lawyers suing on behalf of consumers, claiming attorney-client privilege and a shield for documents connected to lawsuits.

A magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sided with Capital One in a Aug. 21 order.

The order comes after Capital One was forced to share another report ...