AOL

Disclosed Jun 23, 200492,000,000 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 affected	92,000,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Jun 23, 2004
Attack	Insider
Data exposed	NamesEmails
Sector	Tech · US
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization

Sources

Newsweb.archive.org

AOL employee arrested and charged with stealing list

Newsnbcnews.com

Ex-AOL worker who stole e-mail list sentenced

Notices filed

TotalJun 23, 2004

Research92,000,000 people

Other breaches at AOL

Breach, details not statedBreach notice filed with the Indiana AG, details not stated.64 affectedTechUSDec 22, 2015 AOL publishes 20 million search queries from 650,000 usersExposed data, data exposed not stated.Exposed data650K affectedTechUSUnverifiedAug 6, 2006

History of this record

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby seedSource

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

Everything about AOL