Hacker ID’d as former Amazon employee steals data of 106 million people from Capital One

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A systems engineer identified in media reports as a former Amazon employee has been arrested on charges that she hacked into Capital One's network and stole sensitive data for about 106 million people, according to an FBI court filing and a statement from the Virginia-based bank.
According to reporting by The New York Times and Bloomberg News citing company representatives, defendant Paige A. Thompson, 33, of Seattle was an employee of Amazon Web Services. FBI Special Agent Joel Martini wrote in a criminal complaint filed on Monday that a GitHub account, belonging to Thompson, contained evidence that earlier this year someone exploited a firewall vulnerability in Capital One's network that allowed an attacker to execute a series of commands on the bank's servers.
Capital One has confirmed the intrusion and said it affected about 100 million individuals in the US and 6 million people in Canada. Personal information taken included names, incomes, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. Social security numbers for 140,000 people were also obtained, and about 80,000 bank account numbers were accessed.
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