This post was originally published by amol sarwate.
On July 29, it was announced that there was a Capital One cloud data breach. A hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, and investigators say thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers were also taken. This comes on the eve of the news that Equifax has reached aĀ $700 million settlementĀ with U.S. regulators over stolen personal information for 147 million records in 2017.