McCain Campaign sells Info for $20
The McCain campaign really fouled up the selling off of their surplus IT equipment.
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night.
Besides Blackberries, they had un-wiped laptops out for people to look at and purchase. The staff claimed the laptops would be wiped before they were sold, but it doesn’t matter. Everyone knows laptops on display are just begging to be stolen. There is no excuse for having them pawed over by the public when the data hasn’t been destroyed yet.
Full article on Fox: McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry to FOX 5 Reporter
on December 14th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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