Capital One hacker mined cryptocurrency on cloud servers of more than 30 companies

Capital One hacker mined cryptocurrency on cloud servers of more than 30 companies | Computing

Paige Thompson, the alleged hacker behind the Capital One compromise, used the hacked servers of more than 30 companies to mine cryptocurrency. That’s according to the freshly unsealed indictment, which alleges that Thompson “created scanning software that allowed her to identify customers of a cloud computing company who had misconfigured their firewalls”, enabling Thompson to access their backend servers.