Capital One Sees ‘Skewed’ Cyber Incentives in Hack Report Order

Capital One Financial Corp. is pushing back against a judge’s order to hand over a cybersecurity firm’s report on a hack that exposed the data of about 100 million people in the U.S.

Allowing lawyers that sued Capital One on behalf of consumers to get a copy of the post-hack report “skews incentives” for companies facing security risks, lawyers for the bank said in a Tuesday filing objecting to the order. That’s because the ruling forces companies to choose between using an existing cyber consultant or losing the ability to shield such an analysis, they said.

Capital One had argued ...