THELOGICALINDIAN - ExAmazon agent arrested aftermost ages over Capital One abstracts aperture has additionally been accused of hacking over 30 added companies In accession to burglary abstracts Paige Thompson allegedly acclimated the compromised servers to abundance cryptocurrency
Hacking The Hand That Feeds You
The FBI arrested Thompson at the end of July, apropos a massive data breach at Capital One. The drudge had apparent over 100 actor acclaim agenda applicants claimed details, including amusing aegis numbers and coffer accounts.
However, a federal admirable board this anniversary answerable her with two counts of artifice pertaining to over 30 added entities.
Thompson blanket the abstracts from misconfigured servers hosted with a billow accretion company. The allegation doesn’t name which billow accretion company, but Thompson is an ex-employee of Amazon Web Services… which provides billow accretion casework to Capital One.
Compromised Servers Also Used For Cryptojacking
Not agreeable with hacking the servers and burglary data, Thompson additionally allegedly acclimated the servers processing ability to abundance cryptocurrency. From the Indictment:
Amazon Web Services itself was not compromised, admitting the fact, the Thompson is an ex-employee. Access to the servers was due to misconfiguration by Capital One, rather than a vulnerability in Amazon’s infrastructure.
The authorities apparent Thompson’s activities afterwards she acquaint capacity of the Capital One drudge on her GitHub account. There is no affirmation of her aggravating to advertise or advertise any of the baseborn data.
Cryptojacking On The Rise
Cryptojacking appears to be on the rise, with IBM advertisement earlier this year that it has overtaken ransomware as the crypto-cybercrime of choice. A contempo address by McAfee (the aegis company, not the crypto-stalwart who founded it) suggests that cryptojacking campaigns rose 29% in the aboriginal division of this year.
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