Capital One revealed Monday that 100 million credit card applications had been accessed, resulting in thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers being left at risk.
Dubbed one of the largest data breaches to hit a financial services firm, the Capital One hack is expected to cost the company between $100 million and $150 million.
National Australis Bank has begun contacting approximately 13,000 customers to advise that some personal information provided when their account was set up was uploaded, without authorisation, to the servers of two data service companies.
High-flying stock trading fintech Robinhood has warned users to change their passwords after revealing that it stored the sensitive data in plain text, rather than an encrypted format, in its internal systems.
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British Airways faces a record £183.39 million fine for a data breach last year that compromised the personal information - including payment card details - of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says it intends to fine BA for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), criticising the firm for "poor security arrangements".
The Irish central bank has issued a record fine to Wells Fargo for reporting failures by its Irish subsidiary, citing the bank's weak IT systems.
New data obtained by accountancy firm RSM under a freedom of information request has revealed that financial services firms reported 819 cyber incidents to the Financial Conduct Authority in 2018, a huge rise on the 69 incidents reported in 2017.
Canadian financial services co-operative Desjardins has confirmed that a rogue employee stole and disseminated the personal information of more than 2.9 million members.
Desjardins was only made aware of the breach when it was contacted by the police in June.