Paige Thompson mined cryptocurrency on Capital One's cloud servers and hacked more than 30 companies - indictment

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Freshly unsealed indictment claims that Thompson developed her own scanning tool to identify cloud computing accounts' misconfigured firewalls

Paige Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the Capital One compromise, used the companies hacked servers to mine cryptocurrency. She is also accused of penetrating the security of more than 30 other...

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