TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security

TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security
Dan Goodin, The Register 2008-05-27

TJX Companies, the mammoth U.S. retailer whose substandard security led to the world's biggest credit card heist, has fired an employee after he left posts in an online forum that made disturbing claims about security practices at the store where he worked.

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TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security 2008-05-27
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TJX employee fired for exposing shoddy security 2008-05-27
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Rock and a hard place... 2008-05-28
Kohl (1 replies)

I am in total agreement that these security flaws should have been fixed ... however, I can see why some stores went back to weak/blank passwords. You don't need a college degree, or even a high school diploma to get a job at stores like TJX. The managers, who don't want to be fired for being insensitive or politically incorrect, will not challenge employees to remember complex passwords, or berate/fire them for having it reset every time they come to work. Easy for the managers, easy for the dummies working there; the consumers unfortunately lose.

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