From securityboulevard.com
As we head into the last month of 2020, we’re taking a quick break this week and reprinting one of K2’s original posts that we released back in January of 2020. This blog post was originally published here.
On July 19, 2019, an attacker gained unauthorized access to hosted Capital One servers in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and stole personal information about individuals who had applied for Capital One credit cards. In this blog article, we will review how this attack was able to take place, and what could have been done to prevent such attacks in the first place.