[Dataloss] (fwd) Convicted Acxiom Data Thief Gets Eight Years (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:04:08 GMT
Subject: [funsec] Convicted Acxiom Data Thief Gets Eight Years

Via C|Net News.

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A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal 
information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, 
federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Scott Levine, 46, was sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., after 
being found guilty of breaking into Acxiom's servers and downloading gigabytes 
of data in what the U.S. Justice Department calls one of the largest data 
heists to date. Acxiom, based in Little Rock, says it operates the world's 
largest repository of consumer data, and counts major banks, credit card 
companies and the U.S. government among its customers.

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6042290.html