Ex-Amazon employee who hacked Capital One bank used its servers to mine cryptocurrency

The Next Web
By Matthew BeedhamAug 29, 2019, 2:19 am414 pts
The former Amazon Web Services employee thought to be behind the data breach of Capital One bank earlier this year appears to have also used the infiltrated cloud servers to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency. According to court documents, Paige Thompson was indicted yesterday after hacking Capital One bank…

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