Hungary’s government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.
An investigation by Bellingcat has uncovered close to 800 Hungarian government email and password pairings circulating in breach dumps, cutting across nearly every major ministry, from defense and foreign affairs to finance. This doesn’t look like anyone breaking in so much as people making it easy. Weak passwords, reused in places they shouldn’t be, and eventually ending up where they always do.
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Source: The Register News
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