Tag: Paige A. Thompson
The alleged Capital One hacker is a suicidal trans woman
The U.S. bank Capital One was recently hacked, exposing personal information from over 100 million credit applications. And the alleged person behind the hack is a 33-year-old trans woman and software engineer named Paige A. Thompson.
Thompson was charged in federal court on Monday with a single count of computer fraud and abuse. If convicted, she’ll face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
According to The New York Post, a ‘firewall misconfiguration’ in Capital One’s cloud computing...
