Cybersecurity

Capital One Accused Hacker May Have Hit 30 Other Companies

U.S. seeks to keep Paige Thompson behind bars until her trial
‘Multiple terabytes’ of data seized during search of her home

Capital One Financial Corp. signage is displayed outside a bank branch in New York.Photographer: Mark Abramson/Bloomberg

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By Erik Larson

August 14, 2019 at 5:36 PM UTC

Updated on

August 14, 2019 at 6:29 PM UTC

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The Seattle woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.’s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100 million Americans also broke into servers of more than 30 other companies, the U.S. said in a request to keep her locked up.

Paige A. Thompson, who was arrested last month, has a long history of dangerous behavior that includes threats to kill others and to commit “suicide by cop,” prosecutors said in a filing Tuesday in Seattle. It’s the first time the U.S. has said how many other companies she may have targeted.