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Transgender ex-Amazon employee, 33, is arrested for huge Capital One hack after 'stealing data from ONE HUNDRED MILLION customers'
 - [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested on Monday in Seattle for the hack
- Between March and July, she allegedly accessed 80,000 credit card accounts
- She stole 106million individual names and phone numbers and also obtained 140,000 social security numbers
- The data was being stored on the Amazon Web Services cloud but Thompson exploited Capital One's infrastructure to access it
- Capital One announced the breach in a statement and said it had fixed the misconfiguration which Thompson breached
- What she planned to do with them or why she took them remains unclear
- After committing the hack, she left police a trail of breadcrumbs by boasting about it online
- Thompson has written social media posts about being suicidal and has also stated her desire to be deported
Posted by: Fred 2019-07-31 |
