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Whistleblowing may cost you job
By Souradyuti’s Crypto Corner
May 28, 2008
 "A TJX employee was fired for an online post mentioning that TJX hasn’t
beefed up security after the recent, massive data breach that saw 94
million credit card numbers copied by criminals and money from their
accounts stolen. The employee mentioned that, at first, their usernames
were the same as their passwords. After they required stronger
passwords, some managers complained, so they ‘compromised’ by allowing
blank passwords. The whistleblower said he discussed his concerns with
management, but that it was like talking to a brick wall. In spite of
the weak internal security, TJX now has a firm that scours the internet
to find bad things posted about them, which is how they found the
message and fired him for it. Too bad they don’t appear to have hired
anyone to beef up operational security or to convince people to use
strong passwords."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/23/tjx_fires_whistleblower/ |
