Transgender ex-Amazon employee, 33, is arrested for huge Capital One hack

Daily Mail ^ | 07/30/2019 | Ariel Zilber

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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 100million 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'.

When FBI agents searched her home and computers, they found she had also tried to target 'other entities' but they did not state what they were.

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Paige Thompson, 33, of Seattle, Washington, made her initial appearance in federal court on Monday, according to the Justice Department

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Holy Carp! If I had a dog that looked like that...

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AMAZON DENIES BLAME FOR CAPITAL ONE HACK

Amazon was quick to issue a statement after the breach became public to say it was not its cloud's fault.

The Capital One data that was taken was being stored on its Amazon Web Services cloud.

However, both Amazon and Capital One say that it was a fault in Capital One's systems which allowed Thompson to access it.

'AWS was not compromised in any way and functioned as designed.

'The perpetrator gained access through a misconfiguration of the web application and not the underlying cloud-based infrastructure.

'As Capital One explained clearly in its disclosure, this type of vulnerability is not specific to the cloud,' a spokesman told DailyMail.com.

Capital One said in its announcement that its infrastructure is to blame.

'This type of vulnerability is not specific to the cloud. The elements of infrastructure involved are common to both cloud and on-premises data center environments.

'The speed with which we were able to diagnose and fix this vulnerability, and determine its impact, was enabled by our cloud operating model,' Capital One said.

Though AWS insists its systems are not to blame, the breach stokes fears that data it was storing could be taken because other systems aren't up to scratch.

[CatOwner]

Victim card coming up. Not guilty verdict by jury. No punishment.

We've become too civilized for frontier justice, so we're screwed.

[Levy78]

Better wipe that sass off that mug before you go to prison, son.

[DainBramage]

Why couldn’t it stick to power lifting or women’s track like the rest?

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[Paladin2]

Her?

Definitly a Bradley XY.

They are the wurst.

[DannyTN]

Someone tell Corey Booker that we are starting to talk more about Tranny’s.

[PanzerKardinal]

What is seen....Can not be unseen.

[colorado tanker]

That’s a dude! One seriously disturbed dude.

[rktman]

Butt, butt, butt isn't there some sort of security "protecting" cloud data? 🎓💰🔌💻

[MagUSNRET]

“.....Id shave his arse and make him walk backward!”
LOL
Thanks for reminding me of a saying my dad used to use alot!

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[Red Badger]

Hell, that's not even on the HC Matrix!...............😬

[Ezekiel]

Attn: Ariel Zilber

XY = guy

You are part of the problem. You let the culture of lies in to hack your brain.

[Mat_Helm]

I guess she, he, it, what ever you want to call it just wanted to see what is in everyone’s wallet. Glad I don’t have that card!

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Transgender ex-Amazon employee, 33, is arrested for huge Capital One hack

What's in YOUR trousers?

[Dutch Boy]

"Holy Carp! If I had a dog that looked like that..."

Sadly, you would still have a ugly creepy looking dog.

[stockpirate]

I think we need to find out when he left Amazon and was this done while he worked there.