AOL employee steals and sells 92 million screen names
A software engineer at America Online was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing AOL’s subscriber list and selling it to someone sending spam e-mail, federal prosecutors in New York said. According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers used his inside knowledge of AOL’s computer system to steal a list of 92 million AOL customer account "screen names," and then sold them to an operator of an Internet gambling business.
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