Thompson, 37, was sentenced to time served and five years of probation. During Thompson’s sentencing, the U.S. district judge said her time in prison would be “particularly difficult” due to her “mental health and transgender status.”
ByKING COUNTY, Wash. — Former Amazon Web Services engineer Paige Thompson, who was convicted of stealing data from more than 100 million people, was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
During Thompson’s sentencing, the U.S. district judge said her time in prison would be “particularly difficult” due to her “mental health and transgender status.” Thompson was found guilty in June 2022 of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer, according to Brown.According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington, prosecutors used Thompson’s own words in texts and online chats to show how she used a tool that she built to scan Amazon Web Services accounts and find “misconfigured accounts.
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