Anonymous ID: 5f3d25 July 30, 2019, 7:12 a.m. No.7258093   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8105 >>8113 >>8114 >>8140 >>8191 >>8203 >>8224 >>8258 >>8260 >>8286 >>8388 >>8406 >>8417 >>8454 >>8486 >>8536 >>8543 >>8557

"A former Amazon systems engineer working for Capital One is said to be the woman behind a breach that accessed the data of over 100 million people.

Software engineer Paige Thompson, 33, allegedly boasted about the hack and left crumbs for investigators to follow, The New York Times reported. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached.

 

“I’ve basically strapped myself with a bomb vest,” Ms. Thompson wrote in a Slack post, according to prosecutors, “dropping capital ones dox and admitting it,” the NYT said.

 

The F.B.I. noticed her activity on a Meetup she organizes called Seattle Warez Kiddies, which is for people into “hacking, cracking.” This led a GitHub post and to the incriminating Slack message and Tweet. Online, she used the name “erratic.”

Court documents filed with Seattle’s District Court state that Thompson appeared to brag about the information she had accessed related to Capital One. The documents said Thompson accessed the data through a “misconfiguration” of a firewall on a web application."

 

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