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Many of Norm Coleman’s online donors were angered last month to learn that the former senator’s campaign Web site had leaked a database with their credit card data. While a U.S. Secret Service investigation is pending, here’s a footnote to the affair: A second leaked database contained dozens of comments from fans of Coleman’s DFL rival, Al Franken.

Former Sen. Norm Coleman is no stranger to breaches in data security. He authored a bill in 2007 that would have directed federal agencies to disclose breaches of sensitive personal information in a timely manner.

Norm Coleman told donors who are worried about the leak of personal and financial data from his campaign Web site to cancel their credit cards and call him with questions. A Coleman contributor in Atlanta who did just that — shelling out $16 for an expedited replacement card — tells the Minnesota Independent that no one answers the phone at the number Coleman gave.

“Chilling,” “frightening,” “scary.” That’s how former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman described an apparent breach of confidential donor data at his campaign Web site. It’s “obviously an attack on this campaign,” he said.