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by David Kurtz
03.12.09 | 11:49 am

Looks like Norm Coleman’s campaign did just about everything you can do wrong in failing to protect the credit card information of his contributors from hackers. Heck, they weren’t even hacked — they simply didn’t protect the data from someone just surfing the web.

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