Man convicted in enormous Acxiom data theft
An AP newswire article, via The Mercury News, reports that:
A man who owned an e-mail marketing company was convicted Friday of stealing information from data broker Acxiom Corp. in what prosecutors said was the largest federal computer theft case ever.
The jury convicted Scott Levine, the owner of defunct e-mail marketing contractor Snipermail.com, on 120 counts of unauthorized access to data, two counts of access device fraud and one count of obstruction of justice.
Jurors cleared Levine of 14 conspiracy counts and one money-laundering charge.
Prosecutors accused Levine of running Snipermail as a spam factory, devising computer aliases to get around industry blacklisting. He and his company allegedly stole 1.6 billion customer records -- the equivalent of 550 telephone books -- filled with names, e-mail and postal addresses. The government did not charge anyone with identity theft.
posted by Fergie @ 8/12/2005 04:31:00 PM
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