“ I ’ve essentially strap myself with a turkey undershirt , throw off capital ones dox and let in it , ” Thompson purportedly post on Slack , prosecutor say .
Her post on the social internet Meetup initially alerted the FBI after the severance on July 19 , according to the New York Times . There , Thompson ran a grouping called Seattle Warez Kiddies for “ anybody with an appreciation for distributed systems , programming , hacking , cracking . ” From that point , they traced her on-line activeness to other accounts on Twitter and Slack where she allegedly blow about the hack .
Count Rumford has been level with computer fraudulence and abuse , and faces a maximum judgment of conviction of a $ 250,000 fine and up to five years in prison house , theBBC report .
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accord to court documents , the FBI says the cyberpunk took advantage of a “ firewall misconfiguration ” to offend the depository financial institution ’s host . Capital One attributed the incident to an exploited “ conformation vulnerability , ” and enunciate the hack made off with 140,000 Social Security turn and 80,000 banking company account numbers . In aggregate , the heist compromise information affecting roughly 100 million the great unwashed in the United States and another 6 million in Canada .
The bank ’s chief executive , Richard D. Fairbank , apologized for the incident in a statement Monday .
“ I am profoundly sorry for what has happened , ” Fairbank spell . “ I truly apologize for the perceivable worry this incident must be causing those affected , and I am attached to make it right . ”
In the backwash of the data break , Capital One is tender complimentary recognition monitoring and identity auspices to anyone bear on .
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