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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | August 1, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

In 2009, a Washington State judge granted Trevor Allen Thompson’s petition to change his name to “Paige Adele Thompson.” Thompson’s family had moved from Arkansas to the Seattle area when he was a boy and he decided to remain there after his family moved back to Arkansas. Thompson was emotionally disturbed and had been hospitalized for mental health problems. In June of this year, Thompson wrote “that she told her counselor she ‘regretted transitioning fully. And that I felt stuck with the decision I made. And wished I knew what my options were as far as detransitioning.’” Thompson hadn’t held a job in three years and was living in a rundown house on the south side of Seattle with roommates who were also transgender. His/“her” last job, however, was as a computer engineer for Amazon Web Services:

A Seattle-based transgender former Amazon engineer has been arrested for allegedly hacking Capital One bank’s systems to steal data it was storing on Amazon’s Web Services cloud.
Paige Thompson, 33, was arrested for breaking into the bank’s systems to steal the addresses, phone numbers and names of 100 million people in the United States.
A portion of that figure — 140,000 — also had their social security numbers and 80,000 had their credit card details accessed.
Thompson allegedly pulled it off between March and July of this year by breaking into the bank’s servers through a misconfiguration in its firewall.
The data was being stored on Amazon’s Web Services cloud but Amazon insists it is not to blame for the hack and that she exploited Capital One’s systems to access it. Capital One admits that it was a fault in its infrastructure, and not Amazon’s, which led to the breach.

More background:

She spent her days holed up in a lavender-painted bedroom, playing the video game Counter-Strike and pounding out posts that were variously boastful or tortured on different social-media channels.
Before being charged with a massive hack of Capital One Financial Corporation’s computer network, Paige Thompson, 33, lived with three roommates in a run-down house in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Her roommates said they met at a support group for transgender people; Thompson identified herself as a transgender woman on Twitter.
They described Thompson as a brilliant introvert, an Arkansas native who came west with her mother as a child and decided to stay even after her family went home. She began identifying as a woman about a decade ago, said the roommates, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by law enforcement. . . .
Since her arrest, the information that has emerged about Thompson’s life, both online and in interviews, is of a computer engineer steeped in technical know-how but struggling to find stability in her professional and personal life. She jumped from job to job and the last one listed on her resume, a systems engineer at Amazon.com, ended almost three years ago.
“Pretty much the whole time it seemed like she had a lot going on personally and just a lot of things that were interrupting her ability to work,” said Jamie Kahler, who ran a team about four years ago that included Thompson at ATGStores.com, an online home-furnishing site.
Thompson’s social media postings show her struggling with life’s challenges. On Twitter, where she gave herself the handle “erratic,” she agonized over having to euthanize her sick cat, Millie, criticized her own looks and bemoaned her lack of dating options.

Still more background:

Sarah Stensberg said her husband, Kevin, met Thompson in a coding group for young people in the Seattle area and lived with her for a while. Thompson’s abusive behavior eventually led the couple to cut off contact in 2011, she said. Prior to that, they sometimes took Thompson to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center for mental treatment.
“We’d get her into inpatient treatment, we’d visit her, and she’d seem to be doing well,” Stensberg said in an interview Tuesday. “Then she’d go off the deep end. We couldn’t deal with it anymore.”
Thompson repeatedly stalked and harassed them, the couple said, sending them multiple insulting and demeaning messages, until they moved to get away. Then, they allege, she used geolocation tracking from online postings to find their new home. Last fall, the couple obtained protection orders against Thompson, which the AP reviewed along with their petitions.

Obvious question: How could someone so dangerously crazy be hired as an engineer by a multi-billion-dollar company like Amazon?

Oh, that’s right — “diversity”!

Filling the LGBTQ quota, you see. And it’s all fun and games until the deranged tranny hacks the data of 100 million people.



 

Category: Crime, The Transgender Cult, Washington State

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  1. Daybook. – Dark Brightness
    August 2nd, 2019 @ 1:12 am

    […] Obvious question: How could someone so dangerously crazy be hired as an engineer by a multi-billion-dollar company like Amazon? Oh, that’s right — “diversity”! Filling the LGBTQ quota, you see. And it’s all fun and games until the deranged tranny hacks the data of 100 million people. […]