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Capital One Announces Data Security Incident
- JDEW 7y ago> We believe that a highly sophisticated individual was able to exploit a specific configuration vulnerability in our infrastructure. When this was discovered, we immediately addressed the configuration vulnerability and verified there are no other instances in our environment. In other words, someone didn't put a password on their S3 database exposed to the internet...
- dharmab 7y agoFrom reading news sites they were compromised by an Amazon employee, exploiting a bad WAF role.
- julsimon 7y agoAn ex-AWS employee, who left 3 years before the facts took place.
- julsimon 7y agoS3 is not a database, but that's not the point. As explained by Capital One, the attacker gained access through a misconfigured web app. This could have happened on any platform (on-premise or cloud), and the underlying AWS services weren't compromised in any way.
- gm_fan_boi 7y agoThey would probably argue S3 is a product targeted at sophisticated people, by virtue of knowing how S3 operates you are sophisticated.
- wilde 7y ago> No bank account numbers or Social Security numbers were compromised, other than: About 140,000 Social Security numbers of our credit card customers About 80,000 linked bank account numbers of our secured credit card customers This kind of double speak should double their fine.