Guilty Plea in AOL Engineer's Address Theft Case

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.'"

That's federal pound me in the ass prison.

[glrotate]

Doesn't seem like such a good idea now does it?

You've got jail!

[ShatteredDream]

Sorry, couldn't help it...

28K for that kind of list?

[Anonymous Coward]

Smathers told the judge that he accepted $28,000 from someone who wanted to pitch an offshore gambling site to AOL customers

That guy should have asked for much more than that... like if a casino was short on cash! Omni

Re:Deserved it

[ryanjensen]

Don't worry, they have installment plans for that. Kinda like winning the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes, but in reverse.

Later in the prison showers...

[leathered]

'You've got male!'

Punished?

[ckemp.org]

Damn, man. The guy deserves a thank you. Those casino sites rock. Really.

Re:For Chrissake, Slashdot

[Tatarize]

Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!

AOL

[xmp_phrack]

so easy to abuse, no wonder it's number one!