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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, obtaining more than 100 million records.<ref name="krebsonsecurity.com">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/</ref><ref name="heavy.com">https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/paige-adele-thompson/</ref>
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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==
 
==Background==
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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>
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Paige Adele Thompson (about {{age|1986|01|31}} years old) is a transgender individual, who was born male but claims 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><br />
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Thompson frequently posted about her struggles with [[gender identity]], lack of employment, and persistent suicidal thoughts, on the chat platform Slack. Thompson also referred several times to running a botnet involved in cryptojacking, although it is not clear whether this was in fact being done.<ref name="krebsonsecurity.com">https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/</ref>
    
==Capital One hack==
 
==Capital One hack==
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