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AOL

Disclosed Jun 23, 200422 years ago92,000,000 affectedUnverified

AOL engineer steals and sells list of 92 million customer screen names

Federal prosecutors charged AOL software engineer Jason Smathers with using inside knowledge of AOL systems to steal a list of 92 million customer screen names and selling it to a spammer. He was sentenced in 2005.

What is known

People affected92,000,000 (as reported by the organization)
DisclosedJun 23, 2004
AttackInsider
Data exposedNames, Emails
SectorTech · US
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization

Sources

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
ResearchtotalJun 23, 200492,000,000

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BreachAffected
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AOL publishes 20 million search queries from 650,000 usersAug 6, 200620 years agoExposed dataUnverified650K
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · seed source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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