Did NOW: Pensions Adopt Security Malpractices of Sirius 'Open Source'? Server Breaches The Norm Now?
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2023-04-04 04:20:40 UTC
- Modified: 2023-04-04 04:25:48 UTC
They tried blaming it on outsourcing (their own)
Summary: NOW: Pensions, which is apathetic towards crimes of Sirius 'Open Source' (because it gets paid to play along), has one heck of a history when it comes to managing data; 2 years ago its customers' data (some of it highly sensitive) was copied and posted online for all to download, at least temporarily, after a severe breach
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