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Guilty Plea in AOL Engineer's Address Theft Case

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the doing-the-time dept.

ScentCone writes "Jason Smathers, a former AOL software engineer has pleaded guilty in his theft of 92 million in-house account screen names. He'll be paying $200-400k, and serving a year or two of federal time. Smathers used another employee's account to steal the data, and sold it to a Vegas-based online casino operator. Interestingly, one of the charges was 'interstate transportation of stolen property.'"

2 of 219 comments (clear)

  1. Hahaha.. by dep01 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Welcome!! You've got jail!"

    --
    "hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
  2. Stolen? by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    interstate transportation of stolen property

    But he didn't steal it! He infringed a trade secret! He didn't take anything away from AOL; he just made a copy! Why do we misuse --

    Who cares? This guy deserves the word "thief."