Jury Deliberates Trial of Accused Hacker
An AP newswire article by David Hammer, via ABC News, reports that:
A federal jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of an accused computer hacker in one of the largest federal computer theft cases.
Scott Levine, former chief executive of the bulk e-mail firm Snipermail.com Inc., based in Boca Raton, Fla., faces 144 counts from a July 2004 indictment in what prosecutors described as one of the largest computer crime cases ever. Levine is accused of stealing 8.2 gigabytes of information from Little Rock-based Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest database companies. The violations occurred from around April 2002 to August 2003.
The 1.6 billion records included names, home addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, bank and credit card numbers involving millions of individuals. But prosecutors determined that no identity fraud was committed. There was, however, a sale of information to a marketing company, prosecutors say.
posted by Fergie @ 8/10/2005 04:28:00 PM
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