Paige Thompson was found guilty Friday of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer.
Jordan Duncan, KIRO 7 NewsA verdict has been reached in the case of Paige Thompson, the former Seattle software engineer arrested in 2019 for computer fraud and abuse of the Capital One Financial Corporation’s stored data that affected more than 100 million people.
Thompson was found guilty Friday of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer, according to the office of Nick Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.Wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, while illegally accessing a protected computer and damaging a protected computer are each punishable by up to five years in prison.“Ms.
According to a criminal complaint, in 2019, Thompson posted about her theft of information from Capital One servers on the information sharing site GitHub.Scroll down to continue reading
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