Hello, it's great to see you. Welcome back to Mlex's weekly podcast covering the top regulatory stories of the moment with the assistance of our team of reporters around the globe. My name is James Panicki.

Thank you for your company. Now, in a kinder, more loving world, trash talk would have no place

in the struggle for market share. Why denigrate your competitor rather than simply singing the

praises of your own product? But in this world, the one that we live in,

a company disparaging a rival's product or services, is par for the course. Fine, but

when does Trash Talk become a competition issue? Nicholas Hurst is a member of our Brussels team.

He's too polite to engage in trash talk himself, but he has

been covering this issue and will be joining us in just over 10 minutes time. First up, though,

to the west coast of the United States in the Capital One trial in which a woman named

Paige Thompson has been found guilty of wire fraud and hacking in one of the

largest breaches in US history. It's a tricky story. Thompson may not have benefited from

the data breach. Nonetheless, she was found guilty under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. She'll be

sentenced in September. The case has been unfolding in Seattle

in Washington State, and our senior correspondent, Amy Miller, has been covering the trial,

and she joins me now. So, Amy, first up, just outline the government's case for me. What were

the charges? Well, Thompson is a former software engineer with Amazon

Web Services. And according to the government, Thompson was trying to engineer a cryptojacking

scheme. And she started that out by creating proxy scanners. She knew how all of this worked,

because she used to work at AWS. And so she created a scheme to create proxy scanners that identified AWS servers with misconfigured firewalls.

Then she used those misconfigured servers to steal security credentials from companies such as Capital One that she would then use to set up a

cryptocurrency mining operation. And so along the way of setting up this cryptocurrency mining

operation, she downloaded personal information belonging to more than 100 million

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