Any source for this? Interested to read more. I feel the whole AOL saga would make a great Netflix documentary series. Lots of interesting wrinkles, like the acquisition of Winamp.
I don't have a source but in my Technology specialized HS a classmate came in with a THICK looseleaf ringbound book filled with Names, address, phone and credit card info. Each sheet was in tiny print and absolutely filled to the brim. I'd have to guess there were easily over 500 pages print front and back. He said it was from AOL hacking. I was just noob playing with the AOHell prog and didn't really utilize the app for anything more than "busting" into Lobbies that were full.
Those were just text files showing form submissions from fake billing(phishing) pages. I’d guess.
If it wasn’t a “non”(a cc never used at AOL before) it was low value, credit cards were a dime a dozen back then. Only Nons were really high value to ao-hackers. Or cards with the bank phone number, from the back of the card, so you could find out how much available credit they had.