Anonymous Hacks Syrian President; His Password Was 12345

[davidm]

Anonymous Hacks Syrian President; His Password Was 12345

After all, it can’t have taken much hacking prowess to access an account protected with the world’s second weakest password: 12345. To make matters worse, Anonymous was also able to access 78 accounts belonging to al-Assad’s staff, with 33 of them using the same 12345 or 123456 passwords.

Part of my job is to create email account for new employees. This story is a good example of why I give them randomly generated strings of letters and numbers for passwords. People have actually asked me to give them passwords like pass456 and I won’t do it.

[Skywatcher]

Probably had it on his luggage, too.

[GIGObuster]

@Lute Skywatcher

Probably had it on his luggage, too.

First thing I thought of.

What a Spaceball!

[davidm]

With a password like that, I have to wonder if a number of other governments weren’t already reading his email on a regular basis.

[Gorsnak]

@davidm

With a password like that, I have to wonder if a number of other governments weren’t already reading his email on a regular basis.

Heh. All of whom are now pissed off at Anonymous for spoiling their access.

[Covered_In_Bees]

People are stupid.