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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Transgender ex-Amazon employee, 33, is arrested for huge Capital One hack after 'stealing data from ONE HUNDRED MILLION customers'
2019-07-31
  • [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

#7  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCId3kjWPs8
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-07-31 14:31  

#6  @Dron, that's a he. Not a she.
Posted by: Hellfish   2019-07-31 12:44  

#5  Model lies about being transgender after receiving backlash for anti-trans comments
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-07-31 08:00  

#4  Trans? Bullshit. Just another crossdressing freak.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-07-31 07:15  

#3  All she needs to do is cry about saving money for 'the procedure' and a Seattle jury will do the rest.

Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-31 06:06  

#2  What she planned to do with them or why she took them remains unclear

...The 'what' is simple enough; one simply does not do this for the lulz, as the kids say - profit, pure and clear.

And as far as the why...well, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that he has a severe case of the Grievances against something/someone, and this was his way of Striking A Blow For Freedom, Tolerance, Anti-Orange Fella, or any number of reasons.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-07-31 04:32  

#1  I think a few folks here had a conversation about is the cloud really is as secure as advertised. I said then and I still say the "cloud" is other peoples servers and networks you have zero information about run by people you do not know.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2019-07-31 04:17  

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