Accused Capital One Hacker Denied Bail After Evidence of Threat

Matt Day and Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

Capital One Financial Corp. signage is displayed outside a bank branch in New York, U.S., on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Capital One Financial Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 18. , Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- The woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.’s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100 million people was denied bail after prosecutors portrayed her as a loose canon with violent tendencies.

Paige A. Thompson, 33, who has been jailed since her arrest in July, is a risk to herself and others and must stay locked up while the case proceeds, prosecutors argued.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle L. Peterson denied Thompson’s request to be freed to a halfway house, with GPS tracking, at a hearing Friday in Seattle.

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