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.

Rock and a hard place... 2008-05-28
Kohl

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 insens...

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