The Geek Professor » Kill the Messenger http://www.thegeekprofessor.com Making tech easy for everyone Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:11:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TJX Fires Employee for Publicizing Their Weak Security http://www.thegeekprofessor.com/tjx-fires-employee-for-publicizing-their-weak-security/ http://www.thegeekprofessor.com/tjx-fires-employee-for-publicizing-their-weak-security/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 17:15:10 +0000 Jeremy http://www.thegeekprofessor.com/?p=502 TJX reacted like most companies do when they've been embarrassed, harass the people who publicize it instead of actually fixing the problem. Too bad.

]]> TJX, the company that is known for having the largest data breach in history (so far), has not implemented better security and might have gotten worse. The employee that blew the whistle on them has been caught and fired for it.

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.

Hey! That probably means they'll find THIS page. Sweet.

If that's the case, then here's my message to them: Stop storing all that personal data about us against our will and you won't have to pay for more security. You can't lose what you don't have, duh!

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