Florida Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Data Theft
A Florida man was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison in a computer theft case involving more than 1 billion records that Acxiom Corp., a data-management company, collected in its work for large corporations. Scott Levine, 46, of Boca Raton, Fla., was sentenced for the theft of 4,789 computer files. The government claims the stolen data was worth about $58 million; Levine's lawyer said it was worth about $50,000.
Man Gets 8 Years in Data Theft Case, Washington Post, February 22, 2006.
