Paige Thompson stole the personal data of over 100 million Capital One customers and installed cryptocurrency mining software on hacked servers for her own personal gain.
A former Amazon engineer has been convicted of seven federal crimes after she was caught stealing the personal data of over 100 million people. Following a seven-day trial and 10-hour deliberation by the jury, 36-year-old Paige A. Thompson was convicted on Friday in the US District Court in Seattle of seven federal crimes including wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a protected computer.
“Ms. Thompson used her hacking skills to steal the personal information of more than 100 million people, and hijacked computer servers to mine cryptocurrency”, said US Attorney Nick Brown.
