At a time when computer security has been front and center in the Election news, given the Clinton private server scandal and the DNC hack, not to mention one candidate calling on a foreign nation to hack our systems — something he later walked back on, saying it was sarcasm — this is a bad time to put additional questionable practices on display.
Now that thing are wrapped up and we have two official nominees, we also have a report of the major failures that were on display (not just politically).
2016 has been a banner year for those who show innate ineptitude for protecting information, and that isn’t just in politics.
Here’s the top five from a recent report from identity theft and data privacy firm IDT911:
5. Hotel Hell. In April, Donald Trump’s luxury property brand, the Trump Hotel Collection, acknowledged that its credit-card system had been hacked, exposing customers’ card numbers — for the second time in less than a year. A similar breach occurred in July 2015. For the full article click here
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