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Former AWS engineer found guilty of Capital One hack

Former AWS employee Paige Thompson was found guilty of seven federal crimes, including hacking into Capital One.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
June 20, 2022
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Former Amazon Web Services employee, Paige Thompson was convicted of seven federal crimes. She was convicted of hacking into Capital One and stealing data of over 100 million people three years ago. It was one of the largest data breaches in history. After the breach, the company paid $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in addition to an earlier agreement to pay $80 million in regulatory fines.

Seven federal crimes

The sentencing is scheduled for September 15.

Paige Thompson, who worked for AWS as an engineer until 2016, was found guilty of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, illegally accessing a protected computer, and damaging a protected computer. She was accused of creating a tool that enabled her to search for misconfigured accounts which led her to hack into over 30 Amazon clients’ accounts, including Capital One, and mine their data.

The data, stolen by Thompson, included 120,000 social security numbers and approximately 75,000 bank account numbers. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik set Thompson’s sentencing for September 15. Thompson, who uses the alias “erratic”, was reported to authorities by a GitHub forum user.

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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