Friday, July 23, 2004

Bulk mailer faces charges

A bulk emailer in Florida has been charged with electronically breaking into a massive data warehouse and stealing gigabytes of personal information on Americans, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Scott Levine, 45, of Boca Raton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Arkansas for allegedly breaking into Acxiom’s servers and downloading 8.2 gigabytes of data in what the US Justice Department called one of “the largest cases of intrusion of personal data to date.”

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