Tsk tsk DNC. Storing credit card information in plain text is against PCI DSS compliance... only the last 4 should ever be visible when stored as credit cards given for donation/sale should be charged right away and not held on to (another no no).

Somehow, the DNC is actually worse at E-Mail security than Hillary. Remarkable.

Why does this article completely gloss over how awful it is that the DNC was sending social security and CC info completely un-encrypted?

Woo woo wo Wait.. People are seriously emailing credit card/social security numbers? Ugh! I thought Hilary was bad.

Wooo woo wo Wait... People email credit card/social security info? Ugh! An I thought Hilary was bad...

You’re right. One is an inconvenience which is insured against by financial institutions. The other destroys a person’s social standing and livelihood.

Guessing the DNC didn’t pass their PCI compliance audit?

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why would the DNC have records on peoples’ Social Security Numbers and Passport numbers at all?

Instead of blaming Wikileaks for this, maybe the real question is why the DNC was collecting people’s social security numbers?

Man, Gawker is doing EVERYTHING it can to discredit this leak in order to obfuscate the fact that there is some very uncomfortable information presented in these emails. Yes, there was some personal info inadvertently released and that’s terrible, but that was far from all that was released.

Good job Joe! As much as I would love to rip into them, they can’t really be blamed for this, but I do know who SHOULD be blamed for this. Cough DNC cough.

Also, if the data were filtered, that would put a price on the content. That content then gives financial incentive to aquire the personal data which means people would be profiting off of the data by selling it to bad people...

What kind of a site would post someone’s private information like a bunch of dickheads? That’s like unnecessarily outing someone.

...Oh, right.

I think the moment that you adopt an editing policy on these sort of leaks, you enter into some very dangerous waters (not that releasing confidential information isn’t already dangerous...).