From thehill message: CapitalOne and GitHub because of recent data breaches suffered a class action, the events leading CapitalOne leaked more than 100 million customer data.
Tycko & Zavareei LLP law firm on Thursday filed a lawsuit arguing that GitHub and CapitalOne showed negligence in response to irregularities in. The company on behalf of people affected by violations filed a class action alleging that the companies failed to protect customer data.
After the firewall configuration errors in the Amazon cloud storage service used by CapitalOne is utilized, tens of millions of customers' personal information exposed. The vulnerability exposes about 140,000 80,000 Social Security numbers and bank account numbers, as well as the United States and Canada, millions of credit card applications.
Allegedly, the Seattle software engineer Paige Thompson suspected of committing the crime data leakage, and had been arrested earlier this week. Thompson is a former Amazon employee, allegedly visited the March data, and released the news about her stealing information on GitHub in April. Another GitHub user informed CapitalOne, which then notified the FBI.
"As GitHub failed to monitor, delete, or otherwise identify and deal with GitHub and displayed on the website, disclosure and use of data are obviously hacked, personal information spent nearly three months in GitHub.com," the lawyer in its complaint against the firm alleging GitHub and CapitalOne in.
The company also claimed that computer log information "prove CapitalOne knew or should have known" data leakage occurred in March, and criticized CapitalOne did not take action to address violations before last month.
The lawsuit in New York, Attorney General Lai Diya James announced that her office is investigating violations, as well as Connecticut residents represented a violation of all affected people brought together brought another lawsuit.
House Oversight and Reform Commission also requires CapitalOne Republican leaders Amazon and answers on this violation, the Senate Banking Committee may investigate the incident when Congress returns from the August recess.