Friday, May 22, 2020

The new press secretary is proving to be as incompetent as the old ones

And this is a doozy.

Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, did not just reveal that the president was sending his salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help “support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain and combat the coronavirus.”

She also displayed the president’s private bank account and routing numbers.

The $100,000 check she held up like a prop appeared to be a real check from Capital One, complete with the relevant details.

  NYT
Ooopsie.
For an average civilian, that information could be used to withdraw or deposit money, make online purchases or hack an account.

“It’s not a best practice to share that information publicly,” said Eva Velasquez, the president and chief executive of the Identity Theft Resource Center.

[...]

Ms. Velasquez said that a bank was almost certain to have additional protections in place on the account of a high-profile person like the president.
And yet.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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