Sunday, August 4, 2019

How the Accused Capital One Hacker Stole Reams of Data From the Cloud

The woman who allegedly pulled off one of the largest-ever bank-data heists appeared to have exploited a vulnerability in the cloud that security experts have warned about for years.

Paige A. Thompson, a former employee at Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -1.73% ’s cloud-computing unit who was arrested Monday, is accused of carrying out the massive theft of 106 million Capital One Financial Corp. COF -1.16% records.

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