Deal for AOL employee

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 21, 2004

AOL worker accused of selling customer email lists offered deal.

A former AOL employee charged with selling the company's customer email list to spammers has been offered a plea deal, it is reported. In exchange for entering a 'guilty' plea, it is believed that prosecutors will recommend a fine and up to two years in prison for defendant Jason Smathers.

24-year-old AOL engineer Jason Smathers stands trial for stealing at least 92 million screen names from AOL's database and selling the information to an associate, 21-year-old email marketer Sean Dunaway.

Smathers is scheduled to appear in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York later today.

Posted on 21 December 2004 by Virus Bulletin

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