Former Reddit Employee Charged with Data Theft

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Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and former Reddit employee, has been indicted on charges of stealing 4 million documents from MIT and JSTOR. He's accused of breaking into a restricted area of MIT to access MIT's computer network.[URL="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/"]According to the NY Times[/URL], the charges were filed by United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz and could result in 35 years of prison time and a $1 million fine. Ortiz said that Swartz has broke into a computer wiring closet in a restricted area of MIT to tap into the MIT computer network and stole over 4 million documents from JSTOR, an archive of academic papers.
Many outlets are reporting that Swartz is a co-founder of Reddit which is untrue. When we reached Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit along with Steve Huffman, for comment, he stated:
[QUOTE]He is absolutely not a founding member. We acquired his company in December, 6 months after Steve and I launched reddit.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Sources [Gizmodo] and [Reddit]