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Transsexual former Amazon engineer steals 100 million people's financial records from Capital One's Amazon storage


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2019 Jul 29, 9:37pm   907 views  12 comments

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https://siliconangle.com/2019/07/29/100m-customer-records-stolen-capital-one-via-misconfigured-aws-instance/

Data relating to more than 100 million Capital One Financial Corp. customers has been stolen in yet another case of misconfigured cloud storage.

The data breach, one of the largest of a big bank, took place between March 12 and July 17 but only came to light after the alleged hacker, 33-year-old Paige A. Thompson from Seattle, posted information about the theft online. Thompson, who has since been arrested by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, allegedly posted some of the stolen data on GitHub using her own name April 21.

What Thompson did with the data, aside from sharing some of it online, is not as yet clear but the amount of data accessed is. The data relates to 100 million Capital One credit card applicants and holders in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada. The data was stored on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s S3 cloud storage, but Capital One today took responsibility for the misconfiguration that led to the theft.


More sordid details:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7299511/Ex-Seattle-tech-worker-arrested-Capital-One-hack-U-S-Justice-Dept.html

The US is doomed to ever larger and more severe data breaches of our private records as more of it moves to AWS. Why would any corporation outsource the storage of its most critical data?

Capital One's executives should go to jail for this. They are responsible.

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1   Y   2019 Jul 29, 9:47pm  

Hacking credit card data is the only thrill in life left after having your pecker lopped off in a misbegotten moment of doubt.
Have mercy on the criminal!
2   Ceffer   2019 Jul 29, 9:52pm  

Prosecutors told Xer Xe was a toxic bitch. Xe was thrilled!
3   everything   2019 Jul 30, 10:18am  

We will all be talked into credit monitoring, as we were with the equifax settlement.
4   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 30, 10:42am  

WOW. As soon as I heard it was a female, I was like, wow, a women had the balls and know how, OR she was the receiver of the file from some male hacker who did the work.

This explains it.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Jul 30, 10:43am  



It's Buffalo Bill!!!
6   Shaman   2019 Jul 30, 10:57am  

It puts the lotion on its skin...
7   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2019 Jul 30, 11:00am  

Has there ever been a "Feels Good" transsexual news story?
When does the pay off start, for all of this diversity and such?
9   HeadSet   2019 Aug 2, 8:28pm  

Patrick says
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/455993-lawsuit-filed-against-github-in-wake-of-capital-one-data-breach


Oh yes, a class action suit. When it is settled the clients will get free credit monitoring while the attorneys get millions.
10   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2019 Aug 3, 9:04am  

Lol

Quigley says
It puts the lotion on its skin...
11   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2019 Aug 3, 9:05am  

Diversity that Democrats forced came to fruition.
12   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2019 Aug 3, 3:30pm  

HEYYOU says
What have Republicans done about invasions of privacy by individuals & corporations?


You want to regulate internet? And this has nothing to do with Cloud.

Amazon hired a mentally unstable tranny, because they couldn't decline them (that would be racist). Send the bill to LGBTQP groups, it's their fault their members are mentally unstable and screw shit up.

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