[pmdulaney]

I love Amazon, most of the time.

I'm insinuating, if anything, that the skills needed to be an effective hacker and those needed to be an effective Amazon programmer likely overlap, that's all.

That being said, I agree with you that the person who put Amazon in the headline was trying to discredit Amazon, just like the person who mentioned that Jeff Bezos ate baby whale was trying to discredit him.

[ceezuns]

Oh my apologies, I took it as you were saying that either Amazon trained this person to become hacker or hired her because she was one already.

[pmdulaney]

Not to be contentious, but it now appears -- to me, anyway -- perhaps this is old news -- that the hack was perpetrated via Amazon's cloud services. So now it would appear that the perpetrator's Amazon background is quite germane. Even so, Amazon is in no way at fault, as far as I can tell.