DEFENDANT RECORD
Paige Adele Thompson
convicted
Aliases: erratic
Perpetrator of Capital One cloud data breach; convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusion.
Key Facts
Status
CONVICTED
Current legal state
Sentence
N/A
Pending / None
Restitution
$0
Mandatory restitution
Cases
1
Federal dockets
- Legal Disposition: convicted.
- Nationality: United States.
- Total Imprisonment: Pending / None.
- Court Restitution: None ordered.
Prosecution Matters & Evidentiary Summary
Docket 2:19-cr-00159 · U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
U.S. v. Paige Thompson (Capital One Cloud Breach)
convicted 2019-07-29
Former Seattle cloud engineer who identified misconfigured web application firewalls to gain unauthorized access to Capital One's Amazon Web Services storage buckets, exfiltrating 106 million customer credit card applications.
Target Sector: Financial Services, Cloud Computing · Loss: $270.0 million
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