"Ive basically strapped myself with a bomb vest, fucking dropping capitol ones dox and admitting it. I just don't want it around though."Īnother screenshot shows some of Thompson's alleged messages sent over Twitter direct messages. A user named "erratic" replied, "I wanna get it off my server thats why Im archiving all of it lol. One screenshot of a Slack conversation from the criminal complaint shows an unnamed individual saying "sketchy shit, don't go to jail plz," after Thompson allegedly posted a link to information about the stolen data. On July 17, court documents say, an unidentified tipster informed Capital One of its existence by emailing the bank's responsible disclosure address with a brief warning about the data and a link to it on GitHub. It is unclear whether anyone downloaded the data after she allegedly posted it, but they very well may have given that Thompson allegedly talked openly about stealing the data, even on Slack.Īt least one person appears to have stumbled across the trove. On April 21, the FBI says, Thompson posted the data to her GitHub account, which included her full name and résumé. She allegedly exploited a misconfigured firewall to access a Capital One cloud repository and exfiltrate data sometime in March. Thompson, the criminal complaint alleges, went by the hacker name "erratic" in many online accounts and forums. Thompson, 33, was charged Monday with one count of computer fraud and abuse, according to the FBI and court records. Four months after the incident occurred, within just 10 days of Capital One discovering it, the FBI has already made an arrest in connection with the crime. It's one of the biggest breaches of a major financial institution ever. On Monday, the FBI and the bank Capital One disclosed a data breach of 106 million credit card applications that compromised information like names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth, along with 140,000 Social Security numbers, 80,000 bank account numbers, and some credit scores and transaction data.
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