Capital One breach also hit other major companies, say researchers

The data breach at Capital One may be the "tip of the iceberg" and may affect other major companies, according to security researchers. Israeli security firm CyberInt said Vodafone, Ford, Michigan State University and the Ohio Department of Transportation may have also fallen victim to the same data breach that saw more than 106 million credit applications and files copied from a cloud server run by Capital One by an alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, a Seattle resident, who was taken into FBI custody earlier this week. The same messages were published in a CyberInt report published Wednesday.