The plaintiffs say the company knew about the problem with "access tokens" for years and chose to protect its own employees before fixing the problem for users.

In a court filing, the government says Paige Thompson told police that she neither sold or shared the data from the Capital One breach.

The scheme unlocked 2 million iPhones for use outside AT&T's network, federal prosecutors say. At least one employee allegedly received more than $400,000 for participating.

The Department of Homeland Security and four branches of the U.S. military had purchased the affected software.

The breach affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada.

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