Paige Thompson, 36, a former Amazon Web Services employee, was found guilty of hacking into the cloud servers of the American bank holding company Capital One Financial Corp and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million people almost three years ago. Thompson worked at the software giant as an engineer until 2016.
A jury in the U.S. District Court in Seattle found Thompson guilty of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which can carry up to 20 years in prison. Other counts, including charges of illegally accessing a secure computer and damaging a secure computer, are punishable by up to five years in prison. However, the jury found her not guilty of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Thompson, who went by the username “erratic”, created a tool to find misconfigured accounts on AWS, prosecutors allege. This allowed her to hack into the accounts of over 30 AWS customers, including Capital One, gaining access to their data. In addition, Thompson used access to some servers to mine cryptocurrency, which went into her own crypto wallet. Thompson’s final verdict will be handed down by U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik on September 15.
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This incident brought to the fore the issue of responsibility for the security of the cloud and the problem of misconfigurations. Capital One was found to have been negligent in exposing sensitive financial data to the public, resulting in an $80 million fine. In addition, it cost the company $190 million to settle customer lawsuits. In a recent report, security firm Rapid7 noted that the violations related to cloud misconfigurations keep happening with “depressing frequency”.
The researchers warned that there is likely to be someone who is actively engaged in the search for misconfigurations of cloud services on a daily basis. “With the right tools in place, it is almost trivial for any moderately savvy person to look for such breaches in the cloud at scale, and they don’t even need to specifically target your organization to find this unintentional misconfiguration that ends up exposing sensitive data.”noted in the study.
Therefore, the researchers suggest that enterprises dedicate resources to cloud security, including planning for secure and fault-tolerant configurations and automated processes to track errors and omissions. In 2020, it was noted that the damage from misconfiguring clouds amounted to $5 trillion. Now this amount can be much higher.
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