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An America Online software engineer stole a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send massive amounts of e-mail spam, federal prosecutors said Wednesday...
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Virginia, stole the list and sold it to a Las Vegas man, Sean Dunaway, who used it to promote an Internet gambling operation and sold it to spammers, a criminal complaint said...
Lawyers for the men were not immediately available to comment, but prosecutors in New York said both were to appear in federal courts near their homes Wednesday -- Smathers in Virginia and Dunaway in Las Vegas. Each man could face up to five years in prison and at least $250,000 in fines if convicted...