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New Allegations: Capital One Suspect Stole From 30+ Organizations
The woman allegedly responsible for the massive breach of customer data at Capital One stole data from 30 other organizations, according to new information from prosecutors.
In a new court filing, they alleged that Paige Thompson stole terabytes of information from enterprises, educational institutions and other organizations, although she claims not to have sold or distributed any of it to others.
The information is being revealed as part of efforts by prosecutors to persuade the judge to deny bail.
It alleges that Thompson has a history of threatening behavior, including threats to kill others and herself. She is also said to have harassed a couple for seven years, forcing them to obtain a protection order.
Investigators found the new information on data breaches on servers in Thompson’s bedroom.
“That data varies significantly in both type and amount. For example, much of the data appears not to be data containing personal identifying information,” the court filing explained.
“At this point, however, the government is continuing to work to identify specific entities from which data was stolen, as well as the type of data stolen from each entity. The government expects to add an additional charge against Thompson based upon each such theft of data, as the victims are identified and notified.”
Also at ArsTechnica
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @10:58PM (12 children)
From TFS:
So they imply "stole money" but it was really just copied data.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:07PM (2 children)
Details are few, and vague. The article appears to demonize the woman. Hard to form an opinion based on the information available. If she's not capitalizing on the "stolen" data, you've got to wonder if she's maybe just a security researcher? Or, if not security, maybe she's researching something else, such as economic trends?
Then again, her posting history suggests she's a little nuts. Kooks usually get off by reason of insanity, don't they?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:23AM
Or maybe she's working from home/telecommuting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:32AM
Good researchers are usually somewhat nuts.
But to the point, what makes one a researcher when one breaks software? I honestly don't know.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:13PM (8 children)
But it will have to choose between a boy prison and a girl prison.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:40AM (7 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:22AM
Insane asylum is the most logical choice. That boy ain't right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:31AM (5 children)
Womyn born womyn won't want a wannabe woman with a wang around.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:42AM (4 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:33AM (1 child)
Why is it the responsibility of taxpayers to foot the bill for elective plastic surgery for a criminal to feel better about itself? That won't even qualify for Flexible Spending Accounts.
Can I get a nose job if I rob a gas station? I identify as a smaller nose guy. Can tiny boob women get augmentation if they steal a car? What if they identify as a porn star?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @01:27PM
Try it; don't forget to stream it on facebook.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @02:27PM (1 child)
She had amazon's insurance. She had good coverage for dysphoria.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday August 22 2019, @12:33AM
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:06PM (20 children)
The suspect is proud to be a transgender.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:26PM (2 children)
I was thinking that it was an awfully homely woman. I've seen better looking horses and mules. Transgender explains that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:59AM (1 child)
Your use of "homely" was completely different from what I thought it meant, so I had to look it up.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:35AM
One of the Lee sisters: Ug Lee, Home Lee and Beast Lee.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:47AM (16 children)
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(Score: 1, Troll) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:22AM (15 children)
It's more like trans people have mental problems and shouldn't be trusted with data.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:08AM (14 children)
Prior to transition is another story - physical assaults, harassment, sexual predation, public rejection, outright hatred ... it has a heavy toll. All because in m2f women, the SRY gene doesn't trigger the 12-week-old foetus to generate testosterone to masculinize the part of the brain that governs your innate sense of what sex you are. Everyone has this, just that it doesn't work all the time.
Hatred towards someone because of something that happened to them before they were born is ignorant.
Trans people are born that way, same as non-trans people aren't. It's like being colour blind - no matter how many times people try to tell you its green, if you see brown you continue to see brown, even if intellectually you know that others aren't lying to you when they say green. You just aren't capable of seeing it. Same as if you have an innate sense of being a woman in the wrong body, you cannot overrule what your brain is telling you, because the hardware was never changed at 12 weeks by exposure to testosterone.
We've known this since the 90s. That it's still an issue 25 years later isn't quite as bad as denying climate heating, but it's in the same general category of anti-science ignorance.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:34AM (2 children)
Thanks for sharing.
I never heard of the SRY gene and its role in regulating sex hormones that are responsible for changes to a developing brain that select gender identity.
Not anti-science. Just the plain, never heard that before, kind of ignorance.
Is this the same biological basis for men who identify as gay? Are trans folk and gay folk more or less the same, but some decide to change their physical appearance? Or, are these different things and/or with different origins?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:58PM (1 child)
The LGBT crowd is not representative of transsexuals and never has been. The administration in most organizations is openly hostile to employing transsexuals, but they sure love their tay transvestites. And they spend lots of time online infiltrating trans women discussion groups before starting to troll that trans women are the same as them - men in dresses (their words). -
Historically, up until the Moral Majority started their attacks, transsexuality was considered interesting, not perverted. Cover of various family-oriented magazines, favourable newspaper, radio, and TV coverage, nobody out picketing or pushing bathroom bills.
Of course the gay community resented that they weren't receiving the same respect, same as they resented that transsexuals were always allowed to marry in their new sex in most jurisdictions.
Many transsexuals say "fuck off" to pride because the LGBT community has never hesitated to throw us under the bus when it was to their advantage. And now with pride just being aboutt making money off corporate sponsorship, why bother? And this is becoming a concern even among gays and lesbians - it's become all about money, power, and creating jobs for buddies.
There are straight, gay, and lesbian transsexuals - but thanks to all the misinformation pushed by the LGBT organizations, everyone confuses trans women with drag queens, and assumes you must be gay. The only thing to be proud about is finding the courage to be yourself in a hostile world - and that doesn't merit a parade. At least not in my book.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:39PM
It was also prior to California nut cases dressing up their five-year-old's and asking courts to provide hormone and surgical "help" to their kids who are barely old enough to be cognizant that they aren't superman, transformers, ninjas or any other fantasy personas.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:59AM (5 children)
I never experienced that "innate sense" and don't believe others do, either. Sense of what sex you are is a made up thing.
People make all kinds of mistakes. What makes you think everyone can answer correctly whether they're woman or man?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:42AM (4 children)
The only reason you don't fall out of bed at night is your sense of proprioception. It's the sense of where your various body parts are in relation to the whole and your environment. It's so deeply ingrained that people don't even notice it, but for the few who don't have it, their various limbs can just move at random if they don't keep an eye on them.
One electrician with defective proprioception looked away from his work, and ended up touching high voltage equipment and burning his hands off to the elbows.
When this sense is temporarily impaired, you have sleeping parents who roll onto their babies, killlng them.
You use this sense all the time, walking, touch typing, reaching sight unseen for the coffee cup, not stabbing yourself in the face with your fork while eating, playing musical instruments, taking a shower , etc.
It also helps you get around when it's too dark to see. Or you're low vision. It's why you can get dressed in the dark if you don't want to turn on the lights and wake up your s.o. And yet most people don't even know this sense exists. Same as they don't know that they have an innate fixed sense of their sex, even though they know what sex they are.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:02PM (3 children)
I don't feel it either. The only sense of sex I've gotten has been from society. Other than say, being made fun of, doesn't matter much to me. My consciousness doesn't care, I just want to do what I want to do. Maybe its just that I know the rules are made up and sexuality isn't a huge part of my identity like it seems to be in others.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:00PM (2 children)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:40PM
Lots of people are asexual. But lots, like 2-5%.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Monday August 19 2019, @03:48AM
I know whom I'm attracted to, which is what really matters to me. People's gender is a bit like their name. Some get caught up in the subject, many don't. Obviously it's important while having sex, but other gender roles are social constructs.
Boys get building toys and are expected to be tough. Girls get dolls and are expected to be delicate. That doesn't mean a boy who likes dolls and is too scared to fight is a girl inside, or a girl who likes to build and fight is really a boy. Seems weird that people get medical treatment to try to fit those restrictive social molds.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @07:25AM (4 children)
Actually, a rather small fraction of the population has accepted your version of reality. A larger fraction goes along with your version, just to get along. The remainder of us? We know that you've gotta be nuts to want your pecker chopped off. Or, in the reverse, you would have to be just as crazy to want your feminine parts chopped away, and replaced with some imitation woody.
It's important that you understand that your world is only a small part of the human world. Your small part of the human world gets an unfair, disproportional amount of attention, primarily because transgenders make a disproportional amount of noise.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:48AM (3 children)
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(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:54PM
Is that a threat?
I agree with GP, it's nuts. And while publicly normalizing arrant nuttiness like chopping off part of your body may get you virtue signaling points in today's America, I'll use my anonymity to say what I think.
None of the townsfolk wanted to put their name to saying the emperor was naked either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)
If it requires medical treatment it is a disorder, no way around it. And instead of changing the body research should be made to change your brain...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:29PM
I'll agree with that. Dump out the crazy brain (don't feed it to animals) and put in a sane brain who will appreciate their new body.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 17 2019, @11:25PM (1 child)
Is she single?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:03AM
You better check for an adam's apple before you try to check the oil with your dipstick.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:06AM (14 children)
Is it really hacking if you download the content from a public cloud storage account?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:16AM (10 children)
Yes, and a human with a penis is a man. Except for Lorena Bobbitt, for a short period of time.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @01:44AM (1 child)
Lorena Bobbitt was definitely hacking.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:46AM
LOL, though as long as she doesn’t put it back with modified coding, that would actually be theft.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:36AM (7 children)
Damn, got some serious phobias floating around here. Glad I'm not forced to otherwise interact with such dipshits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @11:11AM
whoosh.
The joke is that the penis Lorena Bobbitt had for a while was not hers. And she was definitely a hacker, so this is not offtopic.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:20PM (5 children)
A phobia is a persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity or situation. It is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with a phobia either tries to avoid the thing that triggers the fear, or endures it with great anxiety and distress.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/phobia-a-to-z [harvard.edu]
If someone disagrees with a particular lifestyle choice or finds it distasteful, it is NOT a phobia no matter how much the proponents of it claim it to be so. There is no fear involved anymore than finding someone disgusting that eats their own boogers or believing someone mentally ill who exhibits OCD by clapping three times every time he sees a yellow car. Claiming phobias against those who will not normalize deviant behavior in order to stigmatize them it is the true tragedy.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:10PM (4 children)
It's like racism - it's not enough to say you're not racist. If you're not anti-racist, and willing to call it out when you see it, you're an enabler or hate towards non-whites. I don't keep siloand stand on the sidelines and say "at least I'm not racist." That's for cowards who lack enough empathy towards others to speak up to injustice. Same as women's rights. My body, my choice is something I can really relate to.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:50PM (1 child)
I am eternally grateful I do not live where you live then. When it becomes a criminal offense to speak the obvious truth in order to spare the feelings of a deviant, the government has become an oppressor.
deviant adjective
de·vi·ant | \ ˈdē-vē-ənt \
Definition of deviant (Entry 1 of 2)
: straying or deviating especially from an accepted norm
Definition of deviant (Entry 2 of 2)
: someone or something that deviates from a norm
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @08:14PM
I think what he may mean is that where he lives, saying trannies are crazy will get the local antifa to kick the shit out of you to teach you the meaning of tolerance.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday August 19 2019, @01:56AM
Bullshit.
I don't care what color your skin is or where you come from.
I don't give a damn what bits you or anyone else has or whether you reconfigure them.
I don't care what bits you like your consenting partners to have.
I laugh at all of the giant sky fairies.
But it is not up to you to put an obligation on me. I am not your vassal. I don't have to defend you. Everyone always has the right to walk away.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @07:49PM
There's no such thing as hate speech. Only speech you don't want to hear, and think is so bad that use of government force to punish it is acceptable.
The term "racism" or "racist" is anti-Aryan propaganda made up by Jews to convince Aryans that keeping what's left of their race intact is morally wrong. Anti-discrimination is just one tool to facilitate the White Genocide.
Discrimination as to who someone wants to associate with (in private/non tax funded dealings), is everyone's basic human right, even if they base it on what you might consider ignorance, irrational fear or evil motives. It's only a legitimate crime once they act in a way to violate someone else's (actual) rights based on their beliefs. It's none of your business what criteria they use to make their decisions about themselves or their family.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:34AM (2 children)
If it ain't yours, yes. DMCA or something will apply, fair or not fair.
It may depend on the quality of the lawyer and the depth of the prosecution pocket/budget, but it's Capital One we are talking about, so 'hacking' is as good as written on the wall.
Does it surprise you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:22PM (1 child)
The actual law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 [cornell.edu]
18 U.S. Code § 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
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(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday August 18 2019, @07:17PM
Was tempted by that one, but reading it diagonally, seems it deals mostly with access to govt computers.
Oh, actually, yes, there it is:
That's a good one, Credit One or any bankster can publish all the data unprotected by anything and all it needs to do is to set the "Warning: you aren't authorized to access the data". Bam, by the magic of security by legislation, the US citizens will pay for the prosecution of the offenders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:40AM
mr. paige thompson