#Arrested- Ex-Amazon engineer convicted of hacking data of 100 million customers

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A former  engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud arm of retail giant Amazon, hacked into a cloud storage system for more than 100 million customers and stole data related to a 2019-related Capital One breach. I was convicted of the crime. 

 Paige Thompson, a 36-year-old former high-tech employee, has seven people by the US District Court in Seattle in connection with plans to hack  cloud computer data storage accounts and steal data and computer power for her own benefit. Was convicted of a federal felony. 

  She was arrested in July 2019 after Capital One warned the FBI about Thompson's hacking activities. 

 Thompson will be sentenced to her sentence by US District Judge Robert S. Rasnick on September 15, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. 

 "Thompson used her hacking skills to steal the personal information of more than 100 million people and hijack computer servers to mine cryptocurrencies," said US lawyer Nick Brown. 

 "Instead of becoming an ethical hacker trying to help a company's computer security, she tried to exploit bugs to steal valuable data and  enrich herself," Brown added. 

 Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to  protected computers, and damage to protected computers. The jury found her innocent of access device fraud and exacerbation of personal information theft. 

 "She wanted data,  wanted money, and  wanted to show it off," said assistant lawyer Andrew Friedman. 

  Capital One's account was compromised, affecting more than 100 million US customers. The company was fined $ 80 million and settled a $ 190 million customer proceeding.

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