Capital One credit card data breach

Disclosed	July 29, 2019
Sector	Finance and insurance
Province or territory	Ontario
People affected	6,000,000
Data exposed	About 6 million people in Canada, customers of Capital One’s Canadian credit card business (including Costco and Hudson’s Bay Mastercards): personal and credit information, including about one million social insurance numbers.
Cause	Misconfiguration
Status	People notified
Sources	Privacy Commissioner of Canada: investigation opened
Our coverage	Not disclosed