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Default AOL customer list stolen, sold to spammer - 06-24-2004, 05:22 PM

bah, just thought it was interesting...

By Bob Sullivan
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Updated: 5:48 p.m. ET June 23, 2004A former AOL employee was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list -- over 30 million consumers, and their 90 million screen names -- and selling it to a spammer.

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[url:ce236]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279826/[/url:ce236]
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 05:52 PM

AOL are the bestest of the best!!!! happy:
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 05:54 PM

if you have AOL you deserve to be spammed


  
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Default 06-24-2004, 07:56 PM

Will the person that bought the list from the "hacker" get introuble with the law?


  
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Default 06-24-2004, 09:04 PM

no they will be rewarded
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 09:07 PM

[quote="Mustard_Man":20eb7]no they will be rewarded[/quote:20eb7]

GTFO!
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 09:11 PM

[img]http://www.bikepainter.com/aolsucks-box.gif[/img]

....nuff said !!


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Default 06-24-2004, 09:54 PM

[quote="Sgt. Paine":5d67e][quote="Mustard_Man":5d67e]no they will be rewarded[/quote:5d67e]

GTFO![/quote:5d67e]

please explain what the fuck that means
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 10:09 PM

oOo:

get the fuck out
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 10:11 PM

AOL probably sold the list and said they got hacked.
business can't be going all to good for them when they charge almost as much for shitty dialup as you pay for broadband oOo:
  
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Default 06-24-2004, 10:35 PM

Fuck... they're on to me! *runs away*
  
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