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Former roommate of accused Capital One hacker sentenced
Read full article: Former roommate of accused Capital One hacker sentencedThompson, 33, was arrested and charged with accessing personal information of 106 million Capital One credit card holders. Thompson's former roommate has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally possessing firearms, according to federal prosecutors. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)SEATTLE – The former roommate of a woman accused of hacking Capital One banking company and at least 30 other organizations has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally possessing firearms, according to federal prosecutors. The cache of weapons included four semi-automatic handguns, six semi-automatic rifles, and two additional rifles, Moran said. At least one of the semi-automatic rifles was loaded.
Capital One fined $80 million in data breach
Read full article: Capital One fined $80 million in data breachThe U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled a hack that accessed the personal information of 106 million of the banks credit card holders. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury Department has fined Capital One $80 million for careless network security practices that enabled a hack that accessed the personal information of 106 million of the banks credit card holders. Among the largest of its kind on record, the 2019 breach compromised about 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. The accused hacker, former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson, has pleaded innocent to charges related to the breach. No evidence has emerged that Thompson sought to benefit financially from the hack.