No prison for Seattle hacker behind Capital One US$250mil data breach


A jury in Seattle convicted Thompson on counts of wire fraud, unauthorised access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer following an eight-day trial. — Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash

The former Amazon engineer whose 2019 hack compromised 100 million credit card users' accounts won't spend any additional time in jail.

Convicted in June on seven hacking-related charges, Seattle resident Paige Thompson was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation for violating an anti-hacking law known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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