The consent order said Capital One has
committed to fixing the problem. In an emailed
statement, the company said it has in the year
since the breach “invested significant additional
resources into further strengthening our cyber
defenses, and have made substantial progress in
addressing the requirements of these orders.”
Among the largest of its kind on record, the
2019 breach compromised about 140,000 Social
Security numbers and 80,000 bank account
numbers. The accused hacker, former Amazon
software engineer Paige Thompson, has pleaded
innocent to charges related to the breach.
Thompson, a transgender woman, is set to stand
trial in February. Her lawyers have sought to
have her released to a halfway house where she
would have better access to mental health care,
but the judge in the case denied the request
saying she was a flight risk and danger to others.
No evidence has emerged that Thompson
sought to benefit financially from the hack.