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In an incident reminiscent of the Equifax crisis of 2017, Capital One was a victim of a data breach executed by the accused Paige Thompson. In this data breach, Paige Thompson gained access to millions of American and Canadian citizen's information. Capital One's servers were accessed with an exploit of Amazon's Web Services hosting Capital One's information in the cloud. Thompson made no effort to hide her data breach, and gloated about her perceived accomplishments on social media, leaving a trail that led to her inevitable arrest. Authorities arrested Thompson and are charging her with data fraud and abuse.Late 2017,...

In hysterical news that surprised no one, the Pyramid Hotel Group, owners of the already pwnd Marriott Hotels, have been brutally pwnd again with hackers gaining API keys and successfully extracting corporate data.  The Pyramid Hotel Group boasts an impressive array of properties and quite a nice website, but it looks like they underinvested in network security. Stay secure out there folks!