Federal grand jury indicts Paige Thompson on two counts related to the Capital One data breach
The Department of Justice said today that a federal grand jury has indicted software engineer Paige Thompson on two counts related to the Capital One data breach that affected more than 100 million customers. Thompson will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Seattle on September 5. Thompson allegedly created software that allowed her to see which customers of a cloud computing company (the indictment does not name the company, but it has been identified as Amazon Web Services) had misconfigured their firewalls and accessed data from Capital One and more than other 30 companies.