Many Retailers Easy to Hack, Study Finds

November 15th, 2007 By MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Half of more than 3,000 retail stores that a wireless security company secretly monitored at major shopping centers in the U.S. and Europe use wireless data systems vulnerable to hacking, the company said Thursday.

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