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UniCredit, Italy, is investigating whether its data was recovered from Capital One's data breach, after a cyber security expert uncovered an online hacker publication suggesting that it also stolen data from the Italian bank.
A spokesman for UniCredit said on Wednesday that the bank had "made contact with the relevant authorities" and had opened an active investigation.
"On July 30, UniCredit learned that his name had been mentioned in connection with Capital One's problem," the spokesman said in a statement. "Data security and privacy are our key priorities at all times."
Capital One said Monday that nearly 100 million credit card holders and claimants in the United States and 6 million in Canada had stolen sensitive data by a hacker, who was later identified by an FBI affidavit as being Former employee of Amazon Web Services, Paige Thompson.
On Tuesday, cyber security researcher Brian Krebs said in a blog that he had accessed a Slack channel in which Ms. Thompson had listed other databases that she had discovered while hacking. Amazon cloud instances inappropriately secured. " A screenshot of the databases included one called "unicredit".
In July 2017, UniCredit, the largest Italian bank in terms of badets, revealed a data breach affecting 400,000 customers who were victims of unauthorized access to their personal loan account.
The Milan-based lender blamed a third-party provider for the two detected data breaches that allegedly occurred between September and October 2016 and between June and July 2017.
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