South Seattle woman arrested, charged in massive data breach of Capital One

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Thompson wrote that she wanted the Capital One files off her server, that the data was encrypted and that she had used a variety of tools and relays to conceal her computer’s IP address, according to the complaint.

The FBI noticed her activity on Meetup and used it to trace her other online activities, eventually linking her to posts describing the data theft on Twitter and the Slack messaging service.

someone emailed Capital One, alerting the company about the data breach and including the file address on GitHub

Thompson’s full name was included in the file address, and led agents to her GitHub page, where they also found a copy of her résumé, the complaint says.

This has to go on record as the single worst "hacker" on record. Posting your hacks to twitter, slack and github but thinking you're secure because you're using a random VPN...LOL

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Seattle Warez Kiddies

I think the CTO of Capital One should be going to jail.

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

to be fair, CTO's have very little involvement with the underlings at a large enough company. you'd like to think CTO's are actually very involved people with the engineering teams, but they are just yet another layer of management. if it was a small company, then sure, the CTO would have been involved, but the Capital One CTO likely does nothing actually technical. I just spent over half a decade at a Fortune 100 company and did get to know one of the CTOs well who actually did try to get involved, then he was removed and I quit after the 4th replacement just was so inept I couldn't take it anymore.

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Thanks, that is an interesting insight.

South Seattle woman arrested, charged in massive data breach of Capital One

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