An America Online software engineer accused of stealing the online giant's entire subscriber list and selling it to a Las Vegas spammer was arrested June 23, after a company probe that began earlier this year.
Jason Smathers is accused of using another AOL worker's identification codes to access the list of 30 million individuals using an estimated 92 million screen names and sell it to Sean Dunaway. Dunaway, in turn, is said to have used the list to spam for his online gambling listings, as well as selling the list to fellow spammers for an alleged $52,000 – including one spammer who used the information to spam for herbile penile enlargement pills.
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