Capital One Data Breach
CLASS CASE
Case Details
On July 29, 2019, Capital One publicly announced that an unauthorized individual obtained certain types of personal information relating to people who had applied for its credit card products and to Capital One credit card customers. This unauthorized individual accessed and publically released the confidential information of over 100 million consumers, including: names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, income, credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information, transaction data, as well as approximately 140,000 social security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers.
On August 1, 2019 Tousley Brain Stephens filed a complaint against Capital One for failing to protect the confidential information of its customers.