US Edition‘Snoopy’, ‘Adolf’ and ‘Password’: The Hungarian Government Passwords Exposed Online
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This is not a leak related to government systems, but rather government users registered on sites from which the data was leaked.
These “crazy strong” passwords are available to anyone on the internet.
The Hungarian government has fallen victim to its own negligence: data from 12 out of 13 government departments got on the Web. Officials used simple passwords like “Password” and “123456aa.”
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ComputerworldHungarian government email passwords exposed ahead of election
When voters in the forthcoming Hungarian election assess the current government, its record on internet security will not be one of its proudest achievements. An analysis by open source investigation organization Bellingcat has revealed that the passwords for almost 800 Hungarian government email accounts are circulating online, many of them associated with national security. These breaches in security are not down to high-tech attacks but rathe…
Hundreds of government email addresses and passwords may have been leaked from almost every ministry in Hungary.
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