Ex-Amazon Cloud Worker Convicted of Massive Capital One Hack (1)

A former Amazon Web Services worker was convicted of hacking into the company’s cloud servers to steal customer data and computer power that she used to mine cryptocurrency.

Following a week-long trial in Seattle, Paige A. Thompson, 36, was found guilty of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which carries a prison sentence of as long as 20 years, US prosecutors said Friday in a statement.

Prosecutors say Thompson, who went by the screen name “erratic,” created a tool that searched for misconfigured accounts on Amazon Web Services. She was able to hack into the accounts of more than 30 ...