Cybersecurity
Amazon Contacted Customers Named by Alleged Capital One Hacker
- Paige Thompson charged with fraud in Capital One data breach
- Online postings allegedly by Thompson named other companies
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Amazon.com Inc. said it has reached out to cloud-computing customers mentioned in online postings by the accused perpetrator of a data breach of Capital One Financial Corp., but found no proof she was able to exploit similar flaws at those companies.
Paige Thompson, a former Amazon Web Services employee, was arrested on Monday and charged with computer fraud for accessing data of an estimated 100 million people in the U.S. from Capital One by exploiting a misconfigured firewall that gave her access to some of the data the firm stored on AWS.