On July 29, 2019, it was disclosed to the public that the information technology systems of Capital One Financial Corporation, Capital One, N.A., Capital One Bank (USA), N.A., and Capital One Services (Canada) Inc., (collectively “Capital One”) had been hacked and personal information had been misappropriated. The data had been stored on computer servers owned by Amazon Web Services Inc. and Amazon Web Services (Canada) (collectively “Amazon”).
As a consequence of this data breach, the personal and confidential information of an estimated 6 million Canadian Capital One customers was compromised.