The State of New York fined online retailer Sports Warehouse after a massive
data breach exposed information on more than a million US citizens.
data breach exposed information on more than a million US citizens.
Data breaches are common nowadays, often prompted by an unsecured database,
employee negligence or another mundane reason. But the Sports Warehouse incident
is noteworthy because the company had been collecting almost 20 years of credit
card data from consumers, which it kept in plain text and with a simple
password.
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