Capital One Hit With First Class Action Over Security Breach (1)

Capital One is facing a federal class action filed hours after it disclosed a massive data breach implicating the personal information of millions of customers.

The company announced July 29 that a hacker had gained access to the personal information of about 106 million credit card customers and applicants, including about 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers, and 80,000 bank account numbers.

“The largest category of information accessed was information on consumers and small businesses as of the time they applied for one of our credit card products from 2005 through early 2019,” the company said. ...