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
AOL says worker sold screen names
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