>Authorities have yet to spell out precisely what damage Love is accused of doing to American computer systems aside from saying that he stole the “personal information of users.”

Dollars to doughnuts this is another Gary McKinnon type situation - e.g. a trivial perl script that found embarassingly weak username/password combos. They haven't told us what he did because it reveal horrifyingly weak security and shift the conversation into "how was this even allowed to happen" instead of "bad man hacked us".

As always, no quarter is given by embarassed people in high places.