Convicted Acxiom Data Thief Gets Eight Years

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via C|Net News.

[snip]

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

- ferg


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