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'''Paige Adele Thompson''' is a computer programmer who became infamous for allegedly hacking into Capital One's records of credit card applications, which were stored on an insecure AWS s3 bucket.
==Background==
Paige Adele Thompson (about {{age|1986|01|31}} years old) is a transgender individual, who was born male but now pretends to be a woman. They were known online by the handle "erratic." Thompson lived in Seattle, WA , and has worked for Amazon as a systems engineer (2015 - 2016), ATG Stores Inc, ConnectXYZLLC, and Seattle Software Systems.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/415542580/cv</ref>
==Capital One hack==
Between March 12 and July 17, 2019, Thompson allegedly gained unauthorized access to data belonging to the Capital One Financial Corporation. Thompson was able to get through a misconfigured web application firewall (WAF) which was supposed to be protecting an s3 bucket containing credit card applications.<ref name="heavy.com">https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/paige-adele-thompson/</ref> This is an attack method which has become well-known, and is listed on the OWASP top 10 threats.<ref>https://www.owasp.org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_10-2017_%28en%29.pdf.pdf</ref><br />
After exfiltrating about 30 GB of private data, Thompson proceeded to boast about the accomplishment online, and was soon arrested by the FBI, on July 29, 2019.<ref name="heavy.com">https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/paige-adele-thompson/</ref>
==References==
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'''Paige Adele Thompson''' is a computer programmer who became infamous for allegedly hacking into Capital One's records of credit card applications, which were stored on an insecure AWS s3 bucket.
==Background==
Paige Adele Thompson (about {{age|1986|01|31}} years old) is a transgender individual, who was born male but now pretends to be a woman. They were known online by the handle "erratic." Thompson lived in Seattle, WA , and has worked for Amazon as a systems engineer (2015 - 2016), ATG Stores Inc, ConnectXYZLLC, and Seattle Software Systems.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/415542580/cv</ref>
==Capital One hack==
Between March 12 and July 17, 2019, Thompson allegedly gained unauthorized access to data belonging to the Capital One Financial Corporation. Thompson was able to get through a misconfigured web application firewall (WAF) which was supposed to be protecting an s3 bucket containing credit card applications.<ref name="heavy.com">https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/paige-adele-thompson/</ref> This is an attack method which has become well-known, and is listed on the OWASP top 10 threats.<ref>https://www.owasp.org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_10-2017_%28en%29.pdf.pdf</ref><br />
After exfiltrating about 30 GB of private data, Thompson proceeded to boast about the accomplishment online, and was soon arrested by the FBI, on July 29, 2019.<ref name="heavy.com">https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/paige-adele-thompson/</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Liberals]]