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Company: Amazon.com
Current Parent Company: Amazon.com
Penalty: $95,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: September 13, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Mega-Scandal: Data Breach Liability
Violation Description: Capital One and Amazon.com together agreed to pay $190 million to settle litigation stemming from a 2019 data breach affecting Capital One customers whose personal information was stored in an Amazon cloud service. The parties did not disclose how the payment would be divided between the two companies. Here we assume it was divided evenly.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Eastern District of Virginia
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:19md2915
Case Name: In re: Capital One Customer Data Security Breach Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-internet
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