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Woman Charged As Hacker Of Capital One Data That Exposes Over 100 Million Customers

The country's seventh-largest bank says the information was taken from a hack of credit card applications submitted over a 14-year period.

An alleged hacker has been charged in connection with a breach at Capital One bank that exposed information from more than 100 million credit applications over a 14-year period – in what is thought to be the largest such attack in recent years.

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