Signage is shown on the outside of a Capital One FinancialCorp coffee shop branch in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017.
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A previous Amazon Web Services worker was founded guilty of hacking into Capital One and taking the information of more than 100 million individuals almost 3 years earlier in among the biggest information breaches in the United States.
Paige Thompson, who worked for the software application giant as an engineer till 2016, was condemned on Friday of 7 federal criminal activities, consisting of wire scams, which brings approximately 20 years in jail. The other charges, unlawfully accessing a safeguarded computer system and harming a safeguarded computer system, are punishable by approximately 5 years in jail. A jury discovered Thompson innocent of worsened identity theft and gain access to gadget scams after 10 hours of considerations, a release stated.
Prosecutors argued that Thompson, who worked under the name “erratic,” developed a tool to look for misconfigured accounts on AWS. That enabled her to hack into accounts from more than 30 Amazon customers, consisting of Capital One, and mine that information. Prosecutors argued Thompson likewise utilized her access to a few of the servers to mine cryptocurrency that went to her own wallet.
“She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag,” Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Friedman stated of Thompson in closing arguments throughout the week-long trial.
Capital One in December consented to pay $190 million to settle a class-action claim over the breach, in addition to an earlier contract to pay $80 million in regulative fines. The information taken consisted of about 120,000 social security numbers and approximately 77,000 savings account numbers, according to the grievance.
An lawyer representing Thompson did not right away react to an ask for remark.
U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik set Thompson’s sentencing forSept 15.
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