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Engineer Suspended For Security Breach For Attempting To Touch President Murmu’s Feet

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Jaipur: A week after the incident of President Droupadi Murmu’s security breach, the state government has suspended the deputy engineer with Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) who tried to touch her feet.

The Chief Engineer Administration Water Supply Department issued a suspension order on January 12 for Junior Engineer Amba Seoul.

Amba Seoul tried to touch the President’s feet at an event on January 4. The President was attending the inaugural programme of the Scout Guide Jamboree in Pali.

The official suspension order stated that “ the undersigned, in the exercise of the powers conferred under Rule 342 of Rule 958 of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Classification, Control, and Appeal), we hereby order the suspension of the said Amba Seoul, junior accused with immediate effect,”.

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Former AWS engineer found guilty of wire fraud and computer intrusions in 2019 Capital One hack – GeekWire

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An ex-Amazon Web Services engineer accused of a massive hack in 2019 was found guilty of seven federal crimes on Friday in the U.S. District Court of Seattle.

Prosecutors showed how Paige Thompson built a tool that identified misconfigured AWS accounts and used them to access data from more than 30 entities, including Capital One, an AWS customer. More than 100 million Capital One customers were affected. It was one of the largest breaches of a major financial service.

A jury found that Thompson violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which drew attention last month after the Justice Department revised its policy for charging cases under the Act and said “good-faith security research should not be charged.”

Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer, and damaging a protected computer. She used the illegal access to earn income from cryptocurrency mining software that was planted on new servers, according to the suit. Thompson was found not guilty of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

“Ms. Thompson used her hacking skills to steal the personal information of more than 100 million people, and hijacked computer servers to mine cryptocurrency,” U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said in a press release.  “Far from being an ethical hacker trying to help companies with their computer security, she exploited mistakes to steal valuable data and sought to enrich herself.”

Thompson worked at Amazon as a systems engineer from 2015 to 2016.

Capital One ended up paying $80 million in fines and $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit related to the hack.

Thompson, 36, is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 15. Wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in prison; illegally accessing a protected computer and damaging a protected computer are punishable by up to five years.

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Ex-AWS engineer convicted of hacking data of 100 mn customers, CIO News, ET CIO

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FILE PHOTO: 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: 3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

A former female engineer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Cloud arm of commerce giant Amazon, has been found guilty of hacking into more than 100 million customers’ cloud storage systems and stealing data linked to the 2019 Capital One breach.

Paige Thompson, 36-year-old former tech worker, was convicted in the US District Court in Seattle of seven federal crimes connected to her scheme to hack into cloud computer data storage accounts and steal data and computer power for her own benefit.

She was arrested in July 2019 after Capital One alerted the FBI to Thompson’s hacking activity.

Thompson is scheduled for sentencing by US District Judge Robert S. Lasnik on September 15, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.

“Thompson used her hacking skills to steal the personal information of more than 100 million people, and hijacked computer servers to mine cryptocurrency,” said US Attorney Nick Brown.

“Far from being an ethical hacker trying to help companies with their computer security, she exploited mistakes to steal valuable data and sought to enrich herself,” Brown added.

Thompson was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorised access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer. The jury found her not guilty of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

“She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag,” Assistant US Attorney Andrew Friedman said.

The intrusion to Capital One accounts impacted more than 100 million US customers. The company was fined $80 million and settled customer lawsuits for $190 million.

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Tesla files suit against former engineer for allegedly stealing Project Dojo’s secrets

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Tesla has filed suit against former engineer Alexander Yatskov for allegedly stealing confidential information related to the company’s Project Dojo supercomputer, which the company will be using to train its self-driving neural networks. 

According to Tesla, Yatskov downloaded confidential and tightly guarded information about Dojo on his personal devices. What’s worse is that when Tesla found out about his actions, Yatskov reportedly tried to cover his tracks by surrendering a “dummy” computer instead, which contained none of the stolen information. 

Yatskov began his tenure at Tesla as a thermal engineer in January, where he aided in the design of the Dojo supercomputer’s cooling systems. Tesla noted in its complaint that Yatskov had access to Dojo’s cooling information and other confidential information related to the neural net training supercomputer. 

Tesla stated that Yatskov had violated his non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by “removing Tesla confidential information from work devices and accounts, accessing it on his own personal devices, and creating Tesla documents containing confidential Project Dojo details on a personal computer.” The former engineer was reportedly caught sending emails with classified Tesla information from his personal email address to his work email. 

Tesla remarked that Yatskov actually admitted to storing classified information on his own devices when he was confronted by the company. He was placed on administrative leave starting April 6 and asked to bring in his devices so Tesla could recover any stolen information. Yatskov reportedly provided Tesla with a device, though the company noted that it was a “dummy” since it contained none of the stolen information. 

Yatskov formally resigned from Tesla on May 2. When asked for a comment by Bloomberg, the former Tesla engineer declined to provide a statement about the matter. Tesla, for its part, is looking to receive compensatory and exemplary damages. The company is also seeking to secure an order that would stop Yatskov from disseminating Dojo’s trade secrets. 

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