Life's a breach
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a question. |
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| 0:23.4 | prep. |
| 0:24.4 | That's M-A-G-O-O-S-H.com. |
| 0:31.0 | Russell Brandham, your policy editor at the Verge Monday night, the world found out |
| 0:37.0 | about another huge hundred million plus data breach. |
| 0:41.3 | Could you tell the people what happened, Russell? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, so capital one, you may know their credit card ads on TV. |
| 0:48.5 | What's in your wallet? |
| 0:49.6 | Or their arena in Washington, DC? |
| 0:56.3 | Also, also very true. |
| 0:58.0 | So essentially, they were storing some data on Amazon cloud server, not unusual, and |
| 1:04.4 | it turned out that it was sort of misconfigured. |
| 1:06.8 | More than a hundred million capital one credit card customers and applicants across the |
| 1:11.7 | US and Canada have been affected by a massive data breach. |
| 1:15.9 | This is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution ever. |
| 1:20.2 | This is what they're saying. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, I mean, it's sort of all in how you look at it. |
| 1:24.3 | There's data from more than a hundred million credit applications, right? |
| 1:27.5 | So this is sort of the thing that they mailed you and you mailed back. |
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