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A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, who operated under the online alias “erratic” and worked for the tech giant till 2016, […]
Former Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who was arrested last month in relation to the Capital One data breach, has been accused of hacking not only the U.S. credit card issuer, but also more than 30 other companies. An indictment unsealed on Wednesday revealed that Thompson not just stole data from misconfigured servers hosted with a […]
A couple of months back, ex-Amazon employee Paige Thompson was accused of gaining unauthorized access to the cloud servers of the US-based bank Capital One and 30 other entities. Thompson, who is currently in custody, was indicted on Wednesday and charged with Wire Fraud, Computer Fraud and Abuse. She will be presented in front of […]
Capital One is the latest victim of a large-scale breach, which happened from 2005 and 2019. The 14-year worth data collection may be considered as the data breach with the most number of records stolen for the longest period in the history of computing. In view of the gravity of the situation, Capital One released […]
The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based bank holding company has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial data of over 106 million customers has been accessed and stolen. Out of 106 million, 100 million customers are […]