By: Kevin Dong

In July 2019, the large banking company, Capital One, found out that Paige Thompson, 36, had stolen over 100 million clients’ information.

Paige Thompson worked as a software engineer for Amazon. She made an online community for the people in her industry. She had used methods of ethical hackers, who would find problems in the system and report them so they could be fixed.

Thompson didn’t want to alert Capital One about the problems that let her collect the information. She also mined cryptocurrency on Capital One’s servers.

“All she wanted was data, money, and she wanted to brag,” Andrew Friedman, an assistant US attorney, said.

The jury deliberated for 10 hours before finding Thompson guilty of 5 counts of gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer, in addition to the wire fraud charges. Her sentence will be on September 15 of 2022.