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Fired AOL Engineer gets 15 Months

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the forward-to-the-big-house dept.

n3hat writes "A former America Online software engineer was sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers who sent out up to 7 billion unsolicited e-mail messages, according to this A.P. story in the Baltimore Sun."

5 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    freakin polite

  2. FF: First FAILURE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Score:-1, Troll

  3. This website was his customer by MRSLASHDOTRTTR · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    His first customer actually.

  4. Pwned. by mentatchris · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow. Guess who just got a new boyfriend in prison. Odds that the computer guy will get handed around like a bag of doritos?

  5. Mod parent up :) by Phil246 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod parent as funny pls :)