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Home › Forums › Archives › Site News & Announcements › Instant Messaging News › AIM News › Ex-AOL Employee Gets 15 Months in Prison
Just over a year ago we reported on an AOL employee who stole 92 million screen names and sold them to a spammer. Yesterday afternoon the judge passed down Jason Smathers’s sentence.
Smathers struck a plea bargain with the District Attorny and agreed to assist the government in tracking down the recipient of the list in exchange for a prison term of not more than 1 1/2 years. He received a 15-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Alvin Hllerstein.
Though the Smathers case is over and he will have over a year to think about what to do with his life next, the problems he has caused won’t just go away. The original list, which supposedly cost AOL somewhere between US$300,000 and millions of dollars (I wonder how many accountants it took to come up with that number), is believed to remain in circulation amongst spammers.
Source: ars technica