The story is far more bizarre
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A Seattle-based transgender former Amazon engineer has been arrested for allegedly hacking Capital One bank's systems to steal data it was storing on Amazon's Web Services cloud.
Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested for breaking into the bank's systems to steal the addresses, phone numbers and names of 100 million people in the United States.
A portion of that figure - 140,000 - also had their social security numbers and 80,000 had their credit card details accessed.
Thompson allegedly pulled it off between March and July of this year by breaking into the bank's servers through a misconfiguration in its firewall.
The data was being stored on Amazon's Web Services cloud but Amazon insists it is not to blame for the hack and that she exploited Capital One's systems to access it. Capital One admits that it was a fault in its infrastructure, and not Amazon's, which led to the breach.
After allegedly stealing the data, Thompson left authorities a trail of breadcrumbs, posting online about the hack so much that other hackers warned her she was facing jail.
Her online postings about the hack were reported to Capital One on July 17 in an email from a white hat hacker who had seen the information on a website called GitHub alerted the bank to it in an email.
What Thompson's motives were remain unclear. The bank said in a statement that it does not believe the hacker's intention was to steal people's money.
On social media, she posted about her desire to commit suicide and complained about her boyfriend being deported to Greece in spite of his 'AWS principality'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-S-Justice-Dept.html
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