Donor Info To Web Site Breached
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said Friday that his office was faxed information from a conservative Web site that included sensitive data about donors to the group's cause. The faxes sent to Stupak's office included such information as the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, credit card name and numbers and other important data about 139 donors to the ExposeObama.com Web site, a site dedicated to opposing President Obama.
"This apparent breach of personal information could easily lead to these individuals falling victim to identity theft if placed in the wrong hands," said Stupak, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. "I am concerned that if the ExposeObama.Com Web site is sending this critical information to my congressional office, they may also be sending it to others, further compromising the identities of these 139 individuals."
Stupak said his office notified the individuals whose information was compromised and also sent a letter to the editor of ExposeObama.com, longtime GOP operative Floyd Brown. In the letter, Stupak told Brown the fax came from C4Strategies, an Internet services consulting firm based in the Washington suburb of Lorton, Va.
ExposeObama.com General Counsel and Treasurer James V. Lacy said in an e-mail response that a vendor who works for the site made a "simple mistake" that was caught "midstream." He said the faxes only went to four congressional offices. "Hopefully, the federal employees who work for those congressmen who received the credit card data will not commit credit card fraud," Lacy added.
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