Paige Thompson, who worked for the software giant as an engineer until 2016, was found guilty on Friday of seven federal crimes.
, who worked for the software giant as an engineer until 2016, was found guilty on Friday of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which carries up to 20 years in prison. The other charges, illegally accessing a protected computer and damaging a protected computer, are punishable by up to five years in prison. A jury found Thompson not guilty of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud after 10 hours of deliberations, a release said.
Prosecutors argued that Thompson, who worked under the name"erratic," created a tool to search for misconfigured accounts on AWS. That allowed her to hack into accounts from more than 30
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