Jason Smathers, a 25-year-old ex-AOL employee, will spend 15 months in prison for stealing 92 million screen names and email addresses of AOL users and selling them to spammers.  The spammers reportedly used the information to send up to 7 billion unsolicited advertisements for online gambling.  Smathers got a lighter sentence than first expected due to his willingness to hand over all the spamming information he had to the government.  AOL is claiming that Smathers caused over $300,000 of damage to the company. 

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