Paige Thompson built a tool to find vulnerable AWS accounts, exfiltrate data and plant cryptomining software
Paige Thompson, a 36-year-old former Amazon employee, has been convicted for seven federal crimes by the US District Court in Seattle, all originating from a massive breach at Capital One that affected over 100 million people.
Paige A. Thompson, a software engineer who went by the online pseudonym 'erratic,' was arrested in July 2019, after Capital One reported her activities to the FBI.
Thompson used a tool she created to check AWS accounts for misconfigurations. After identifying vulnerable accounts, she hacked into and downloaded data from over 30 entities, including Capital One bank. ...
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