AOL Employee Sold 90 Million AOL Emails to Spammers

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The FBI has arrested an AOL employee for stealing e-mail addresses of AOL's customers to sell to spammers. The FBI said over 90 million AOL screen names were stolen and sold to an Internet marketing group. Jason Smathers of West Virgina, has been charged on many accounts. The owner of the Internet marketing group was also arrested for accepting the stolen e-mails and for re-selling them to more spammers. Read more..