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REUTERS: Capital One Financial Corp. announced Monday personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million people in the United States and 6 million people in Canada, obtained by a hacker stopped.
The US credit card issuer said it identified the piracy on July 19 and that the person responsible was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The incident is expected to cost between US $ 100 million and US $ 150 million in 2019, mainly due to customer notifications, credit monitoring and legal support, said Capital One.
The hacker did not have access to credit card account numbers, but about 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 linked bank account numbers were compromised, Capital One said.
About 1 million social insurance numbers of the company's Canadian credit card customers were also compromised.
The hacker was able to "exploit" a "configuration vulnerability" in the company's infrastructure, he added, adding that the vulnerability had been reported to Capital One by an outside researcher.
(Report by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru, edited by Sandra Maler and Sonya Hepinstall)
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