AOL says worker sold screen names

[CrimsonTide4]

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

[msn4med1975]

this is i hate getting spam at AOL accounts i hardly use and since this has been probably been sold a billion times by now we'll always keep getting them.