The DOJ is “very disappointed” with the lenient sentence.
: in a statement on the case, US attorney Nick Brown said that the department understood the mitigating factors but was “very disappointed with the court’s sentencing decision.” Brown added, “This is not what justice looks like.”that is atypical of most large hacking and data theft incidents. Thompson did access and download a huge amount of data without authorization after using a custom software tool she built to scan for misconfigured Amazon Web Services accounts.
After gaining access, she leveraged the compromised accounts to download data from a number of organizations, including Capital One, and obtained vast troves of sensitive user information including Social Security numbers and bank account information. Thompson also reportedly planted cryptocurrency mining software onto some of the remote servers that she had gained access to and routed the proceeds into her own crypto accounts.
But unlike many other data breach cases, it seems that there is no evidence Thompson sought to enrich herself from the large volumes of personal information she stole. There are no allegations that she offered any of this data for sale or fraudulently used banking information to make purchases for herself.
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