One bad apple… (AOL’s Jason Smathers Arrested for Stealing Email Addresses)   - 2,888 Views, 2 Comments

Summary: AOL employee Jason Smathers has been arrested for stealing an AOL customer list containing 92 million AOL usernames and selling it to Las Vegas spammer Sean Dunaway. Police say that Dunaway, who was arrested as well, used the list to send spam ...
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AOL employee Jason Smathers has been arrested for stealing an AOL customer list containing 92 million AOL usernames and selling it to Las Vegas spammer Sean Dunaway.

Police say that Dunaway, who was arrested as well, used the list to send spam about his online gambling business, and that he also sold the list to other spammers.
Do any of Aunty’s readers happen to know the street price for a list of all user email addresses at AOL?

AOL has said that Smathers has been fired, although Aunty is pretty sure that’s West Virginian for “lynched”.

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2 Comments »

  1. Ouch. Wired got the news, that

    Comment by Anonymous — 6/24/2004 @ 2:19 am

  2. it is a good progra

    Comment by mahmoud — 12/2/2006 @ 10:33 am

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 This article first appeared on 6/23/2004
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