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Regulatory Implications from 2019 Capital One Hack and Recent Conviction of Former AWS Engineer

Paige Thompson, a former Amazon Web Services employee, was recently convicted of seven counts of fraud in U.S. District Court for stealing personal data from more than 100 million customers from unsecured accounts stored on Amazon’s Web Service in the cloud.  The data breach cost US bank Capital One more than $270 million in compensation and regulatory fines for the breach.  Thompson orchestrated the theft...