Capital One Data Breach Exposesbr More Than 100 Million Customers.br In a statement released on July 29, Capital Onebr revealed there had been unauthorized accessbr to their servers by an "outside individual.".br The hacker, identified as Paige Thompson,br was a previous employee of Amazon Web Services.br According to the FBI, she was able tobr access Capital One’s data through abr web browser's misconfigured firewall.br Thompson gained access to 140,000 Social Securitybr numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurancebr numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. .br An undisclosed number of people also had theirbr personal information such as names, addressesbr and credit scores obtained by Thompson.br In total, 100 million people in the United States andbr 6 million in Canada were affected by the breach.br Capital One will reportedly notify all thosebr who were affected and expects to incur at leastbr $100 million in costs related to the hack. .