Capital One: hacker gained access to personal information of over 100 million Americans

(Reuters) - Capital One Financial Corp said on Monday the personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of about 100 million individuals in the United States were obtained by a hacker who has now been arrested. The incident also affected about 6 million people in Canada. Capital said it identified the hack on July 19 and the individual responsible has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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