The FBI tracked down the alleged Capital One hacker online. The suspect left a digital trail.

[Zorro]

Weeks before she was arrested, Paige Thompson was getting ready to euthanize her cat.

The 33-year-old Seattle programmer was pained like any loving pet owner, tweeting that her cat Millie’s health would “only get worse” and that she “just can’t see her go through this misery anymore.”

Her next tweet took a darker turn. Thompson wrote that she planned to check into a mental hospital after her ordeal with Millie was over.

“I have a whole list of things that will ensure my involuntary confinement from the world,” she wrote July 5. “The kind that they can’t ignore or brush off onto the crisis clinic. I’m never coming back.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/30/fbi-tracked-down-capital-one-hacker-online-suspect-left-digital-trail/

[brush]

1. Oh, great. Now we not only have to worry about nuts getting guns, now they're...

hacking into data banks and exposing SS numbers and other personal info of millions.

[Zorro]

2. It was an insider job

That's a little bit different than an external hacker, and may be the most serious kind of data security threat. But I get your point.

[FakeNoose]

3. If the Feds knew what she's doing, why didn't they stop her?

I'll never understand why they watch somebody commit a crime, instead of preventing the crime from happening.