When a company is stupid, they allow predatory scammers to obtain mass quantities of information or enable scammers to use stolen information without protection for their customers. When a person is stupid, they hand over their account information to a fishing scam or malware. Instead we have people who are either too lazy or too stupid to learn the new technologies, and would rather blame the technology then themselves. If everyone understood technology, we wouldn’t have this problem. Technology is not inherently bad, the bad comes from an inferior quality of people. What do you think a plow is? How about the wheel? Rope? Nails? Knives? Your not logically analyzing the situation. To say that technology is the enemy is hypocritical. I grew up on a farm and I always worked with computers. You are so out of touch with reality it’s scary. This may not be the “Digital Enron” security case that some people are expecting, but it is shaping up to be quite a mess. On top of this latest bit of bad publicity, TJX also has to deal with the fact that one of its largest shareholders is now suing the company over the breach - saying that the company hid important information about the breach from shareholders. It’s interesting to note what brought the scam down was that the scammers started using multiple cards at once - and almost all of the cards were for $400, just under the $500 limit that would require identification. A new report says that some scammers in Florida used the data from TJX to create dummy credit cards, and then purchased Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club gift cards which were redeemed for about $8 million worth of goods.
Of course, in many of the other cases of data leaks, the end result, while annoying, didn’t actually involve criminals using the leaked data. As you probably remember, earlier this year, the company made news after it came out that some scammers had broken in and accessed credit card and other personal info on tens of millions of customers - which many consider to be the biggest such data leak ever. Maxx, Marshalls and a bunch of other retailers.
This can’t be a good week for TJX, the parent company of T.J. Thu, Mar 22nd 2007 06:40am - Mike Masnick
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