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PoliticsA WeWork tenant found its weak WiFi security exposed bank details, driving licenses, and a virtual birthday card featuring Nicholas Cage as a cat
- A WeWork tenant working out of a Manhattan WeWork building was easily able to view hundreds of sensitive documents belonging to other companies in the building thanks to poor WiFi safeguards, CNET reports.
- Teemu Airamo brought this to the attention of the company in 2015, but the WeWork representative he told "denied flat out that this was a problem."
- The problem has not gone away in four years, as Ai…
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