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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.'"

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  1. Re:That's federal pound me in the ass prison. by quarkscat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, the 1 to 2 year sentence was way
    too light, IMO. Something more along the
    line of a public (televised) hanging or
    draw-and-quartering (or perhaps more toward
    your tastes, impalement.)

    His misdeeds have to represent a potentially
    large percentage of SPAM sent across the wire,
    and the penalty should fit the crime.