Signage is displayed on the exterior of the Capital One Financial Corp Cafe branch on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 in Walnut Creek, California, US.
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Was a former Amazon Web Services employee convicted of Hacking in Capital One and stealing the data of more than 100 million people in one of the largest data breaches in the United States nearly three years ago.
paige thompson, who worked for the software giant as an engineer until 2016, was found guilty on Friday of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which carries up to 20 years in prison. Other charges, for illegally accessing a protected computer and causing damage to a protected computer, could be sentences of up to five years in prison. A jury found Thompson not guilty of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud after 10 hours of deliberation, a release said.
Prosecutors argued that Thompson, operating under the name “Irregular,” created a tool on AWS to search for false accounts. This gave him 30. Allowed to hack into multiple accounts heroine customers, including capital a, and that data of mine. Prosecutors argued that Thompson used his access to certain servers to mine the cryptocurrency known to be in his own wallet.
“She wanted the data, she wanted the money, and she wanted to brag,” Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Friedman said of Thompson’s arguments closing during the week-long trial.
In December Capital One agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the breach, in addition to an earlier agreement to pay $80 million in regulatory fines. According to the complaint, the stolen data includes about 120,000 Social Security numbers and about 77,000 bank account numbers.
An attorney representing Thompson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
US District Judge Robert S. Lasnick sentenced Thompson to September 15.