AOL employee held over Spam scheme
Thursday, June 24, 2004 Posted: 1329 GMT (2129 HKT)
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -- 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 of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 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 Sean Dunaway, who is not an AOL employee.
AOL employee held over Spam scheme