Hey, let’s go back to January: remember when Norm Coleman said that the weight of “disenfranchised voters” brought down his campaign website? Anyway, his dumb, unimpressive fake crash stunt left a database full of info on supporters/donors unprotected and free for anyone to download, including information such as unencrypted credit card information (credit card numbers, expiration dates, and card verification numbers) for people who donated online. Well, a couple months later, and now it’s all up on Wikileaks. As Aaron at MNpubulis mentions, Norm Coleman broke the law in more ways than one.
Coleman’s team is falsely claiming that there was a breach within their firewalls that didn’t show up on server logs. That’s pretty dumb because a) those types of things generally show up on such logs, b) it had nothing to do with firewalls but DNS, and c) if all you needed to do in order to obtain the information was to right-click and save to your computer, that’s not hacking or “breaching” anything.
