The Vietnamese defendants are accused of using stolen email addresses for a spamming operation
Mar 6, 2015 10:55 AM By Grant GrossThe attacks, running from February 2009 to June 2012, resulted in the largest data breach of names and email addresses "in the history of the Internet," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said in a statement. After stealing the email addresses, the defendants sent spam emails to tens of millions of users, generating US$2 million in sales, according to the DOJ.
Viet Quoc Nguyen, 28, of Vietnam, allegedly hacked into the email service providers, stealing proprietary marketing data containing more than 1 billion email addresses, the DOJ said. Nguyen, along with Giang Hoang Vu, 25, also of Vietnam, then allegedly used the data to send spam messages, the agency alleged.
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