Capital One announced that sensitive financial information—including social security and bank account numbers—from over 100 million people were exposed in a massive data breach that led to the arrest of a former Amazon employee by rachsandl
indicate that she worked at Amazon, which operates the popular cloud computing business Amazon Web Services, from 2015-2016. Using the online alias “erratic,” Thompson allegedly talked about the files she accessed in a Slack group and in a direct message on Twitter, the court documents say.
“Ive basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, f*cking dropping capital ones dox and admitting it. I wanna distribute those buckets I think first. There are ssns… with full names and dob,” a Twitter direct message sent from Thompson reads. A screenshot of the message was included in the court documents.
Thompson allegedly posted the information from the hack on her Github profile, which included a link to her resume, leading the FBI to her. Github is an online service that allows users to upload and store code. The hack occurred on March 22 or 23, the court documents say, but no one at Capital One knew the bank had been breached until four months later when an anonymous security researcher alerted them.
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