He really can't. Lying is a reflex action for this asshole. He demonstrates it yet again in this new kerfuffle over leaked contributor information. Notice I said leaked, not stolen as Coleman is insisting.
As Jay Weiner reports over at Minnpost, Coleman's website wasn't hacked. They made the typical rookie mistake of putting private information in an unsecured public folder accessible to anyone. In this case, it was a backup of a database containing personal information including credit card data, apparently: credit card numbers, the verification codes from the back of the cards, and even social security numbers. The fact that they collected and stored this information reveals yet another rookie mistake - competent technical folks would have passed this functionality off to professional sites that do the verification securely instead of handling it themselves. The certainly would not have store the verification numbers - by law and by contract they are not supposed to be retained more than 48 hours.
To top it off, Coleman's people were warned about this back in January. Other than securing the data after the fact, did they do anything about it? Report their breach to authorities? Warn their contributors that their personal information had been leaked, exposing them to potential identity theft? Confess to probable violations of law in not securing it? Hell no. They kept silent.
And now, more than a month later, the word gets out of their incompetence, and what does Norm do? Take responsibility? Hell no! He sputters and threatens, whining that the Secret Service is going to track down the mean old hackers to broke into his web site (not!). The man is shameless.
BTW, if you think you might be one of the donors whose information was compromised, you can downlead a semi-sanitized extract of the database from Wikileaks here and search for your name. Although if you're a Coleman supporter I can't imagine why you're reading this blog...
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