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An enterprise risk consultant is presenting about the management of risk associated with third-party vendor relationships at a financial conference. To emphasize the importance of understanding this risk and to illustrate lessons learned, the consultant describes several past examples of large losses and data breaches incurred by different financial institutions due to deficient or fraudulent third-party vendor practices. One example provided is the large loss incurred by Capital One, a US-based bank holding company, that resulted from its relationship with a third-party vendor. Which of the following best describes the circumstances that led to the loss in this case?
A
The vendor provided an inaccurate loan pricing model to Capital One, which incurred far greater default losses than expected.
B
A bill payment system provided by the vendor failed for an extended period of time, resulting in many Capital One customers canceling their accounts and causing severe reputational impact.
C
The vendor's sales manager established extremely high incentives for its representatives to sell Capital One products, resulting in regulatory fines for selling inappropriate products to consumers.
D
A former staff member of the vendor hacked into a database of Capital One's personal customer information that was stored on the vendor's cloud services platform and stole much of this information.