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Revision as of 03:08, August 1, 2019
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.[1][2]
Background
Paige Adele Thompson (about 40 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.[3]
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.[1]
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.[2] This is an attack method which has become well-known, and is listed on the OWASP top 10 threats.[4]
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.[2]