The US government has filed a superseding indictment against Paige A. Thompson, a former Amazon engineer accused of hacking Capital One and stealing the personal data of more than 100 million Americans. From a report: According to court documents filed earlier this month and obtained by The Record, the US Department of Justice has added seven new charges on top of the original two it filed in August 2019. The new charges — six counts of computer fraud and abuse, and one count of access device fraud — come as investigators have made headway in analyzing data seized from Thompson’s computers and servers.

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