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Hacked Syrian Officials Used '12345' As Email Password

Posted by samzenpus on from the I've-got-the-same-combination-on-my-luggage dept.

Nominei writes "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the Syrian President, aides and staffers had their email hacked by Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of emails online. Reportedly, many of the accounts used the password '12345' (which their IT department probably warned them to change when the accounts got set up, of course)."

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  1. That's amazing by Anamelech · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got the same combination on my luggage!

    1. Re:That's amazing by Vintowin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I've got the same combination on my luggage!

      Came for this, leaving satisfied!! This thread will go to plaid soon.

    2. Re:That's amazing by cashman73 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder if their President is surrounded by assholes, too?

    3. Re:That's amazing by bosef1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, I see how it works. Sure, you let them clean your clothes, serve your food, teach your children. Heck, you'll even let them represent you politically (I've lived in DC, I've seen Congress). But the minute they display the first inkling of self-respect and self-organization, it's "Neanderthals aren't 'smart' enough", "Neanderthals are another species", "Neanderthals are extinct".

      I see how it works, alright. You're afraid. Afraid to come out of your shell and admit your true feelings. It's easy enough to hate, but you're just to afraid... to love.

  2. Only 12345? by froggymana · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that everyone knew to use at least 123456 as their password. After all that increases its security by an order of magnitude!

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  3. IT did warn them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    then the IT guy got taken into the alley and shot in the head for his impudence.

    1. Re:IT did warn them by HSonger · · Score: 5, Funny

      The IT group probably forgot to install the Unicode language pack on their machines so the only Arabic they could put in were numerals.

    2. Re:IT did warn them by mjwx · · Score: 5, Funny

      The IT guy was then shot again, for his incompetence.

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  4. Re:You know... by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every time I go to pastebin.com and look at the hacked sites the passwords are always weak, extremely weak

    No surprise there.

    , virtually no one uses strong passwords.

    Non sequitur. The published passwords are weak because that's the passwords that were easily cracked. Those who have strong passwords are underrepresented on the lists precisely because they have stronger passwords so they weren't brute-forced easily.

    IT departments and well-meaning distro packagers have to take some of the blame too. I can't choose a password like Zph9vZZZ3tPseX4 because it has Z repeated 3 times, and contains a word found in a dictionary?
    Fuck that then, I'll go with abcd1234 instead. Oh, and I have to change it every four weeks? Next time it will be 1234abcd, then abcd12345 and 12345abcd - catch my drift?

  5. Re:12345 by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or a couple of NSA agents looking at each other and saying "shit, I've got to go change my password."

  6. Re:12345 by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or a couple of NSA agents looking at each other and saying "shit, now we can't read their email"

  7. Re:Mine is 54321 by goombah99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fool! passwords need to be 8 digits at least. Mine is 1234567891011 It goes to 11, for extra security.

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  8. Re:12345 by ArundelCastle · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Papal and Italian agencies turn to their roots for cipher strength: IIIIIIIVV