Ex-Amazon worker sentenced for hacking Capital One and taking information of more

Ex-Amazon worker sentenced for hacking Capital One and taking information of more than 100 million individuals, including federal retirement aide numbers and banking data

A previous Amazon Web Service representative was sentenced for seven counts of PC and wire extortion.

The Capital One hack happened in March 2019, bringing about the robbery of in excess of 100 million client information.

Examiners said Paige Thompson gloated about her hack in web-based gatherings and over instant messages.

A previous Amazon Web Services engineer has been viewed as at fault for hacking into Capital One and taking large number of clients' information.

Paige A. Thompson on July 17 was seen as at legitimate fault for wire misrepresentation, five counts of unapproved admittance to a safeguarded PC, and harming a safeguarded PC.

"A long way from being a moral programmer attempting to assist organizations with their PC security, she took advantage of mix-ups to take important information and looked to improve herself," said U.S Attorney Nick Brown.

Thompson, who worked under the name "Inconsistent," modified programming that permitted her to get to Amazon's client information which was put away on their server, as indicated by the Department of Justice. One of those clients was Capital One. Thompson additionally utilized her server admittance to mine cryptographic money, Brown said. The break happened in March of 2019, and Thompson was captured by the FBI in July of that year.

Thompson mined touchy client information that included government managed retirement numbers, date of birth, and addresses, among other data. She posted data about the hack on the cross-stage application Github, where one client announced her to Capital One, as indicated by the DOJ.

Thompson additionally paraded subtleties of her hack through instant messages and online discussions, examiners said.

"She needed information, she needed cash, and she needed to boast," Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Friedman said in his end contentions during her preliminary.

Capital One was fined $80 million and settled a legal claim for $190 million on April 22.

Thompson has to carry out five years in jail, the DOJ said. She was seen as not at real fault for access gadget misrepresentation and irritated data fraud.

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