Alleged Capital One Hacker Faces 20 Years In Prison For Stealing 100 Million Customers Data

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The Department of Justice said Thompson posted about the tools she used to hack Capital One on GitHub, a software development site where programmers can post projects, using her full first, middle and last names.



Capital One breach exposed bank data for the most financially vulnerable customers



The complaint also includes screenshots of a Slack channel in which Thompson, under the alleged alias "erratic," posted a list of Capital One files she claimed to possess and explained how she extracted the files.



"I wanna get it off my server that's why Im archiving all of it lol," Thompson allegedly posted on Slack.



The agency also alleges that Thompson made statements on other social media platforms about possessing Capital One data, listing a Twitter handle that allegedly belonged to Thompson, @0xa3a97b6c in the complaint. The account has since been suspended.



"Ive basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, f-ing dropping Capital One's dox and admitting it," Thompson allegedly wrote in a private message via Twitter.



Thompson's private Twitter messages also included references to distributing the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for the customers whose records she breached, according to the Justice Department.



Thompson's trial, which has been postponed several times for further discovery and because of the pandemic, is now set for March 14, 2022. Extreme mining