A Florida man was found guilty of stealing data from customer information management company Acxiom Corp. Friday. The prosecution estimates that Scott Levine and his defunct bulk e-mail marketing firm Snipermail.com Inc. stole more than 1.6 billion customer records by hacking into an Acxiom server.

A jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, convicted Levine, of Boca Raton, on 120 counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer, two counts of access device fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. The jury cleared him of 13 counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer, one count of conspiracy and one count of money laundering.

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