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Former AOL employee pleads guilty in spam case

Ouch -- 92 million screen names and email addresses stolen from AOL.  The guy netted $28k, and will have to pay $200-400k in restitution.  Not exactly a lucrative business, was it? 

Once again we see privacy compromised from the inside -- nothing that the individual account holder could have done would have prevented this.

MSNBC - Former AOL employee pleads guilty in spam case

Published Monday, February 07, 2005 9:00 AM by jeffnew

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