Report: Assad's Office Hacked, Password Was '12345'

[sedan]

TPM:

Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday reported that Anonymous hacked the office of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and dumped hundreds of emails online, including damning prep notes for Assad's December 2011 ABC News interview with Barbara Walters, in which a press officer encouraged bringing up America's police response to the "Occupy Wall Street" protests as well as America's "policy to torture people," as counter-examples against allegations of Syrian regime-ordered killings.

Seventy eight inboxes of Assad staffers were compromised, according to the newspaper, including several that used the password "12345," one of the most-common but obviously least secure passwords possible.​

 

[Rationalist]

Whoever is managing their security policy is an idiot. Any decent network admin would require at least six characters, one uppercase, one number, and one special character.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

so...'hiding' in plain didn't quite work

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Whoever is managing their security policy is an idiot. Any decent network admin would require at least six characters, one uppercase, one number, and one special character.

I hate those sorts of passwords. They inevitably lead to constant calls to tech support because you can't fucking remember them.

 

[Airstrip One]

The second president since Scroob of Spaceballs to use that password!!