A former Amazon Net Providers (AWS) engineer has been discovered responsible of hacking into clients’ cloud storage methods and stealing information linked to the large 2019 Capital One breach. A US District Court docket in Seattle convicted Paige Thompson of seven counts of pc and wire fraud on Friday, against the law punishable by as much as 20 years in jail.

Thompson, who additionally glided by the identify “Erratic” on-line, was arrested for finishing up the Capital One hack in July 2019. The breach was one of many largest ever recorded, exposing the names, start dates, social safety numbers, e-mail addresses, and cellphone numbers of over 100 million individuals within the US and Canada. Capital One has since been fined $80 million for allegedly failing to safe customers’ information and s…

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