If they were stupid enough to hire an incompetent web designer. But they’re not.

Coleman is kind of a shining light for moronitude in this instance.

This type of problem could have happened to the Franken campaign, the Obama campaign, or any one of your businesses. In fact, I’ve seen this type of problem with vendors many times over my career. Rarely do the public (or customers) hear about these issues. Choose your vendors carefully.

Laying blame on the Coleman campaign for this data breach is misdirected. You can argue all you want about their public relations but the lack of data security isn’t their fault. I’m sure they signed a contract with a vendor and believed they were getting quality services. If their credit card vendor’s servers were hacked would you blame the campaign? Of course not. It’s not like Coleman’s staff bought a server, threw linux on it, and tried to play hoster. They wouldn’t know the difference between Apache and an American Indian.

I know that some of the supposed “outrage” posted here is nothing but political astroturfing. BTW, I’ve got a sale going today on tinfoil hats. Two for one.

Their favorite politician screws up–or conducts illegal activity–that directly impacts them, and who do they blame? “Liberals,” George Soros and his band of hackers, etc. Give me a break!

Coleman’s campaign PUBLISHED this information on their website–it was not hacked.

They knew about it, and rather than doing the right thing and warning all of their donors, they chose to do nothing.

I truly feel sorry for anyone who now has their personal info. exposed for everyone to see. You should be very angry! It is healthy! But for god sakes blame the right people!

It was Coleman’s office that was extremely – I would even say criminally – negligent with your sensitive financial data. I’m a web developer, and I can tell you that what Coleman’s people did was unbelievably stupid. They invited disaster. They put your credit card info in a place that could easily be accessed by anyone, and that’s exactly what happened. The negligence was so blatant that it wasn’t even a question of whether your data would be compromised – it was only a question of when. They didn’t put a link to the data on their site saying, “Come and get it!”, but they may as well have.

You have every right to be angry, but it’s Coleman’s people who deserve your anger.

Let me put it another way. Suppose you buy a car from your favorite local dealership, who then leaves your financial paperwork with all your personal data lying in a box on the curb. Someone happens along, picks it up, and may or may not use it for illegal purposes. Who do you blame? Do you assume that the “thief” is working for the competing dealership across the street and blame the competitor? Or do you blame your dealership for being careless with your financial data in the first place?

Is there a conservative anywhere in this world who is able to take responsibility for something they caused to happen.

BTW, it IS NOT hacking if someone can find information on a website in an unprotected directory.

Norm, if you weren’t so busy making time for your girlfriend while your wife’s busy with her “acting career” in SoCal, you’d be a better manager of your own campaign.