Key takeaways: 

• An ex-Amazon Web Services employee was sentenced for hacking into Capital One and stealing the data of almost 100 million people about three years back in one of the most significant data violations in the United States.
• Paige Thompson, who worked for the software giant as an engineer till 2016, was found guilty on Friday of seven federal offenses.
• Capital One in December decided to pay $190 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over the violation, in addition to an earlier deal to pay $80 million in regulatory penalties.

An ex-Amazon Web Services employee was condemned for hacking into Capital One and stealing the data of almost 100 million people about three years back in one of the most significant data infringements in the United States.

Paige Thompson, who worked for the software giant as an engineer till 2016, was found blameworthy on Friday of seven federal offenses, including a wire scam, which takes up to 20 years in jail. 

The other charges, illegally accessing a protected computer and harming a protected computer, are punishable by up to five years in jail. A release stated that a release said that a jury saw Thompson not guilty of heightened identity robbery and access device scam after 10 hours of deliberations.

Prosecutors claimed that Thompson worked under the name “erratic” and made a device to search for misconfigured accounts on AWS.