TJX whistle blower sacked?

Courtesy ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 05/22/2008 - 4:54pm

TJX, the retailer that was hit with a major security breach, has sacked a whistle blower who was exposing the company’s security issues.

According to the ha.ckers.org site: I had some very disturbing news today from one of the forum users - he had just been fired by TJX for whistle blowing on their security issues.

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