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Yet a broad search of dark web channels, like the Pirate Warez website, an underground forum for pirated goods, didn’t yield anything meaningful when searching for “manuscripts,” “unpublished” or “upcoming book,” or the titles of several purloined manuscripts.

In April, she created the group “Seattle Warez Kiddies” on the site Meetup - the month after prosecutors say she began hacking Capital One.

The programming group she once ran on Meetup.com, dubbed “Seattle Warez Kiddies,” no longer exists.

Thompson appears to have boasted about the stolen data in a Slack channel, according to screenshots shared in the court documents, which was linked in a Meetup.com group she hosted called Seattle Warez Kiddies, described as an event for “anybody with an appreciation for distributed systems, programming, hacking, cracking.”

It’s sort of like the jump from professional bootleggers trafficking tracks on Warez forums to the peer-to-peer network of Napster.