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Attackers Leak UN Usernames and Passwords

Posted by Unknown on from the senate-of-world-corruption dept.

Orome1 writes "A group of hackers that go by the name of 'Teamp0ison' has apparently compromised one (or more) of UN's servers and dumped over 1000 email addresses, usernames, and passwords of their staff." The BBC has a bit more, including a denial that anything of value was compromised.

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  1. Probably old information by suso · · Score: 5, Informative

    1000+, I don't think so:

    grep Password united_nations_hacked_by_trick_-_teamp0ison.txt | grep -v 000 | wc -l
    584

    I'm excluding the 000 passwords as being their actual passwords.

    grep Password united_nations_hacked_by_trick_-_teamp0ison.txt | grep -v 000 | awk '{ if (length($4) < 6) { print $4; }
    131

    That's 131 of the passwords are less than 6 characters. I'm guessing these passwords are very old, before better security measures were put in place.

    1. Re:Probably old information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If they're unconfidential, what's the problem?

  2. Not Mutually Exclusive by bengoerz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Judging by some of it's past inactions, it is arguable that 1,000+ UN accounts do not comprise anything of value.