Paige Thompson (Capital One / AWS)

LEGAL STATUS

Convicted June 17, 2022. Original sentence vacated (9th Cir., Mar 17, 2025). Resentenced Oct 29, 2025: time served, supervision, 3 years' home confinement (credit for 3 years of probation already served), 250 hours of community service, and $40,745,000 restitution.¹

AS OF 2026-10-20

Timeline

2019-07Arrested after Capital One alerted the FBI²
2022-06-17Convicted of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access, and damaging a protected computer. Acquitted of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.²
2022Sentenced to time served (about 100 days) and five years' probation³
2025-03-179th Cir. vacates the sentence as substantively unreasonable and remands³
2025-10-29Resentencing judgment (Dkt. 462)⁴
2025-11-03Order on Resentencing filed (Dkt. 463)¹

Verified facts

She previously worked as a Systems Engineer at Amazon S3. The hacking of AWS customer accounts began more than two years after that employment ended.³
She downloaded data from more than 30 entities, including Capital One, and planted cryptocurrency-mining software.²
The Capital One intrusion affected more than 100 million U.S. customers, per DOJ.²
Docket: No. 2:19-cr-00159-RSL (W.D. Wash.).⁴

Editorial notes

Edge case. She was a former employee of the cloud provider, not of the victim bank. Explain why the site tags this as former-insider.

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