software engineer Jason Smathers, 24, who worked in AOL's headquarters in Dulles Virginia, was able to access and appropriate the screen names, zip codes and "credit card types" of AOL's 92 million customers
Makes me wonder how he could get them? It's a bit worrying if he could just do...
SELECT *
FROM customer_list
ORDER BY last_name ASC;
<wait a very long time>
92,000,000 rows returned.
(apologies if my SQL isn't quite right
)