I Don't Believe in Imaginary joint* writes "A TJX employee was fired for an online post source 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 money supervision stolen. The employee be be be conspicuous that, at first, their usernames were the same as their passwords. After they required from the all the more passwords, some managers complained, so they 'compromised' by allowing blank passwords. The whistleblower said he discussed his relating to 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 hookup highway 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."

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