Amazon Cloud Hacker’s Time-Served Sentence Tossed on Appeal

A former Amazon Web Services worker found guilty of what was, at the time, the second largest data breach in United States history saw her time-served sentence tossed by the Ninth Circuit on Monday.

The district court “overemphasized” Paige Thompson’s personal history and failed to give sufficient consideration to the need for deterrence, Judge Danielle J. Forrest said.

Thompson’s sentence of time-served—about 100 days—also included five years of probation and 36-months’ home incarceration. It had been proposed by probation services as an “alternative recommendation.”

Forrest said the court didn’t reach its decision to vacate the district court’s sentence “lightly.”

The ...