AOL Data Compromised

Time Warner's (TWX Quote) AOL Internet unit is investigating how data from more than 650,000 searchers ended up being improperly disclosed on its Web sites.

AOL employees released the data, covering searches from March through May, on an internal Web site set up to communicate with academic researchers. Bloggers, who discovered the breach Sunday, are crying foul -- blasting AOL for failing to safeguard its users' privacy.

"Although there was no personally identifiable data linked to these accounts, we're absolutely not defending this," AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein says in a statement. "It was a mistake and we apologize." ...