Alleged hacker, a former employee of Amazon Web Services, arrested by federal agents in Seattle

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Nicole Hong,

Liz Hoffman and

AnnaMaria Andriotis

Capital One Financial Corp., the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer, said Monday that a hacker accessed the personal information of approximately 106 million card customers and applicants, one of the largest-ever data breaches of a large bank.

Paige A. Thompson, 33 years old, was arrested in connection with the hack Monday by federal agents in Seattle, officials said. Ms. Thompson is accused of breaking through a Capital One firewall to access customer data that the bank had stored on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service,…

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