Theillegally accessed data, which was stored on servers rented fromAmazon Web Services, was primarily related to credit cardapplications and included personal information.
Capital One Financial Corp. set up an email address for tipsters— including “white hat” hackers — to alert the company to potentialvulnerabilities in its computer systems. On July 17, the companygot a hit.
“Hello there,” the email said, according to federal prosecutors.“There appears to be some leaked s3 data of yours in someone'sgithub/gist.” A link was provided to an account at GitHub, acompany that allows users to manage and store project revisions,mostly related to software development.
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