Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is the latest lawmaker to raise questions about what happened at Capital One. Wyden questions the security practices followed by Amazon Web Services and how the company secures its cloud-based AWS Simple Storage Service, also known as an S3 bucket. The FBI alleges that the Capital One hacker bypassed a misconfigured firewall within the bank’s network and then gained access to where data was stored within the cloud infrastructure the company used. The data breach, which affected nearly 106 million U.S. and Canadian residents, led to the arrest.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/more-us-lawmakers-questioning-capital-one-amazon-a-12886