Amazon — Data Breach

Executive Summary

Capital One disclosed a massive data breach affecting approximately 100 million customers in the US and 6 million in Canada, caused by a former AWS engineer exploiting a misconfigured web application firewall on Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The breach exposed approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, and personal information dating back over a decade. The attacker, Paige Thompson, was later convicted on seven federal charges.