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Ex-AOL Employee Arrested in Spam Caper

Posted by Roger on 24 June 2004, 6:37 pm

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the articles on the AOL employee who stole millions of screen names and sold them to spammers. Jason Smathers was not authorized to have access to the screen name list but used another employees access code to steal it.[1] According to an article I saw posted over at Harry …

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