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> Many Reg readers will know Capital One best for the break-in in 2019, where an attacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal informat
by syspec 4y ago
> Many Reg readers will know Capital One best for the break-in in 2019, where an attacker raided Capital One's cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in the US and Canada. Stolen data from people who applied for credit products included 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, as well as one million Canadian social insurance numbers, plus names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and reported incomes.
> Former Amazon engineer Paige A Thompson, who also went by the handle "erratic," was collared by the FBI the same week of the attack, and was convicted in June last year of pilfering millions of folks' data from the "misconfigured" storage buckets. In October, Thompson was sentenced to time served and five years of probation with location and computer monitoring.
So wait, he stole millions of dollars worth of data, got rich off of it and was sentenced to time served?
- bobkazamakis 4y agowhere do you see that she got rich...?
- tanaros 4y ago> So wait, he stole millions of dollars worth of data, got rich off of it and was sentenced to time served? She copied the data but there was no evidence she profited from it. Capital One paid $250+ million in fines and legal settlements as penalty for not securing the data properly.