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Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords
First time accepted submitter radudragusin writes "IEEE suffered a data breach which I discovered on September 18. For a few days I was uncertain what to do with the information and the data. Yesterday I let them know, and they fixed (at least partially) the problem. The usernames and passwords kept in plaintext were publicly available on their FTP server for at least one month prior to my discovery. Among the almost 100.000 compromised users are Apple, Google, IBM, Oracle and Samsung employees, as well as researchers from NASA, Stanford and many other places. I did not and will not make the raw data available, but I took the liberty to analyse it briefly."
Yeah, but the "most used passwords" should really be a bar graph not a line graph. It's not like the midpoint between "ADMIN123" and "IEE2012" makes any sense.