Democratic senator seeks answers from Amazon on Capital One data breach

Published August 6, 2019 6:32pm ET



The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is evaluating the potential risk to companies and government agencies from Amazon’s cloud-computing service, which stored Capital One data stolen in a massive data breach.

The intrusion, one of the largest data breaches in history, has already prompted an investigation from New York’s attorney general, and Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee previously asked executives from Capital One and Amazon Web Services for a briefing.

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