Comments on: Media begins countering claim that Coleman site was hacked

By: More Twists in the Endless Minnesota Senate Race - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

More Twists in the Endless Minnesota Senate Race - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:43:22 +0000

[...] debate raged on Thursday over whether the campaign was the victim of hackers or its own carelessness. As MinnPost points [...]

By: News Day: Coleman campaign circus / “Don’t do anything embarrassing” / Water bill / Recount and more « Mary Turck

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:14:25 +0000

[...] donor database story, ably reported by the Minnesota Independent in January and now, some are ignoring plain facts: the Coleman site was not hacked; the Coleman campaign carelessly put donors’ credit card [...]

By: justsayin

justsayin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:42:10 +0000

Coleman’s mistaken was stupid but unintentional. One of your friends posted private credit card information on a site with deliberate criminal intent. They are your friends, right? I mean you sound pleased by their actions.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:34:18 +0000

Boy, if I ever discover that someone has left secret data in plain view I’m not going to say anything. I’ll leave it there for real criminals to find and exploit. I wouldn’t want to be accused of looking at something I shouldn’t be looking at.

By: David in Mpls

David in Mpls — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:29:58 +0000

just sayin: “Either way, someone did something unethical by posting donors personal information on line.” Yes, agreed, and that someone has been clearly documented as Coleman and his staff running an online ecommerce web site in an unprofessional, unethical, and potentially illegal manner by placing private information in an unprotected state on the public web.

The rub is that Coleman appears to have tried to cover this up, and that is why Coleman SUPPORTERS are upset about it, which is not some left-wing conspiracy. Adria Richards and Wikileaks tried to get Coleman to take responsibility for the problem, which means they acted responsibly.

Further, that does not take away our rights to dislike the former Senator for his policies, and to disagree with his claim against a legally valid election recount result that already went to the Minnesota Supreme Court. We are proud to be Americans! Deal with it.

By: rawkibby

rawkibby — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:40:34 +0000

@justsayin When I see you outside, I’m gonna punch you in the nose. Full up sick of your angry, baseless attacks. Once again, the purposefully misinformed justsayin manages to spread a lie. The credit card info was left in a public place. The onus is on Coleman who cannot even be responsible with donors privacy. Coleman can’t betrusted to run anything, much less a senate office. Good thing its good riddance to our shameless, spiteful exsenator.

By: The BRAD BLOG : 'Daily Voting News' For March 12, 2009

The BRAD BLOG : 'Daily Voting News' For March 12, 2009 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:27:02 +0000

[...] MN: Media begins countering claim that Coleman site was hacked http://minnesotaindepend…-coleman-site-was-hacked [...]

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:14:40 +0000

RTFA, I looked again at both articles they’ve posted, and the linked spreadsheets. I was right, Wikileaks did not post full numbers.

By: justsayin

justsayin — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:08:09 +0000

Let’s be honest for a change and call a spade a spade:

If you support Franken then the site was not hacked.
If you support Coleman it was.

Either way, someone did something unethical by posting donors personal information on line. That in no way can be disputed. Who ever did this is misguided. The “open door” explanation doesn’t justify criminal and immoral behavior. If I find out who posted the information I am going to punch him/her in the face.

By: RTFA

RTFA — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:20:27 +0000

Eric, read the wikileaks article in it’s entirety. You will see that they point to fully unencrypted card numbers which are stored in one of the database tables.