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A jury finds ex-Amazon engineer Paige Thompson guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges for downloading the personal info of 100M+ Capital One customers in 2019

New York Times Kate Conger

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  • @abhinavagarwal Abhinav Agarwal on x
    “The hacker, Paige A. Thompson, a former systems engineer at Amazon Web Services, used a self-made tool to detect misconfigured AWS accounts and then use those accounts to hack into the systems of more than 30 organizations, including Capital One” https://www.cnet.com/...
  • @kiro7seattle @kiro7seattle on x
    Paige Thompson was found guilty Friday of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer. https://www.kiro7.com/...
  • @krmgtulsa @krmgtulsa on x
    Paige Thompson faces as many as 20 years in prison on the top count of wire fraud. https://www.krmg.com/...
  • @siliconlaw Amy Miller on x
    Accused Capital One hacker Paige Thompson has been found guilty by a federal jury in Seattle; she'll be sentenced on 9/15: https://www.justice.gov/...
  • @wdwanews @wdwanews on x
    Former Seattle tech worker convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions - Hacked into Amazon Web Services and stole data and computer power to mine cryptocurrency https://www.justice.gov/...
  • @trycatchhcf @trycatchhcf on x
    “Thompson, who went by ‘Erratic’ online, was arrested for carrying out the Capital One hack in July 2019. The breach exposed the names, birth dates, SSNs, email addresses, & phone numbers of over 100 million people in the US & Canada” https://www.theverge.com/...