'She had a habit of openly struggling with her state of mind in public channels,' said an online friend of accused hacker Paige A. Thompson.
A former Amazon software engineer accused of hacking Capitol One and exposing personal data of more than 100 million customers made threats she would"shoot up" a California social media company, according to federal prosecutors
According to those filings, the company alerted authorities about the threat and Seattle police made a report. She most recently worked at Amazon Web Services, a division of the online giant that hosted Capital One data. Prosecutors claim Thompson, who allegedly began illegally accessing data in March, knew authorities were closing in.
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