Paige Thompson, a former Seattle tech worker, was convicted for seven federal crimes on Friday, all stemming from a massive Capital One hack that impacted more than 100 million people. FOX13
On July 19, 2019, Thomspon, now 36, used a tool she built to. She then used those misconfigured accounts to hack in and download the data of more than 30 entities, including Capital One bank.
With some of her illegal access, she planted cryptocurrency mining software on new servers with the income from the mining going to her online wallet, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. , including roughly 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. There is no evidence the data was sold or distributed to others."Thompson spent hundreds of hours advancing her scheme, and bragged about her illegal conduct to others via text or online forums," the U.S.
"She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag," Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Friedman said in closing arguments. wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computerThe jury found her not guilty of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, which she was previously charged with. DAILY NEWSLETTERthat I have read and agree
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