Capital One Data Breach History

This page tracks the Capital One data breach history and cybersecurity incidents affecting Capital One (United States). BreachHistory currently indexes 8 publicly disclosed or catalogued incidents spanning 2012 through 2019, with approximately 216.0 million records reported as exposed across all indexed events. These totals may include overlapping datasets or third-party estimates and should not be interpreted as unique affected users.

The Capital One breach timeline includes major data breaches, cyber attacks, data leaks, credential exposures, API abuse, and other security incidents. Each incident provides details on the estimated records exposed, attack method, affected data types, and supporting public sources. Currently, 0 incidents are company-confirmed.

Largest Capital One Data Breaches

The largest indexed incidents include the 2019 — Capital One: Poor security / misconfiguration, 106,000,000 records, the 2019 misconfigured firewall — AWS, and the 2019 — Capital One: Hacking, 10,000,000 records, along with additional historical incidents involving exposed passwords, public databases, and large-scale data scraping. Record counts originating from threat actors or leak sites should be treated as estimates unless confirmed by Capital One or a regulator. Below is the list of large data breaches:

• 2019 2019 — Capital One: Poor security / misconfiguration, 106,000,000 records — about 106.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2019 2019 misconfigured firewall — AWS — about 100.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2019 2019 — Capital One: Hacking, 10,000,000 records — about 10.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2013 2013 — Capital One: Two men face charges of conspiracy to commit bank… — about 6.0K records exposed · Catalogued incident

What Information Was Exposed?

Depending on the incident, exposed data may include email addresses, names, physical addresses, payment card and financial account data, bank account details, health and medical (PHI) records, and other personal information (PII). The exact data varies between incidents, so review each breach page before assuming your information was affected.

Capital One Data Breach 2026

At the time of this update, no Capital One data breach has been catalogued for 2026. New incidents are added as official disclosures, regulatory filings, or credible cybersecurity reports become available.

What To Do If You Were Affected

If you believe your account may have been involved in a Capital One data breach, change any reused passwords, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA), monitor your account for suspicious activity, and be cautious of phishing emails or fake breach notifications.

This Capital One breach history is maintained by BreachHistory using public disclosures, regulatory filings, security research, and clearly labelled third-party claims. For the complete breach timeline, records exposed, incident details, and AI Breach Risk Score, explore the sections on this page.