So this is where all that AOL spam was coming from? The good news: credit cards were in a different database. Washington Post:

A 24-year-old software engineer at America Online Inc. was arrested yesterday on federal charges that he hacked into the company’s computers to steal 92 million e-mail addresses that were later sold and used to bombard AOL members with spam.

Seriously, the last year or two spam at AOL has decreased (in our experience when we used their service) so AOL should be commended on their efforts to crack down on this stuff. It used to be you register a new AOL screenname and within a week you were getting hammered with spam.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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