Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked
Special characters. Regular changes. Don't click on suspicious links. Anyone who has sat through a workplace cybersafety training has undoubtedly heard these phrases repeated again and again. from the Department of the Interior reveals the most-used password among their employees last year was"Password-1234."
The report — from Kathleen Sedney, assistant inspector general for audits, inspections, and evaluations — detailed how Sedney's staff managed to break into 21% of the department's active employee accounts. Out of those 18,000 accounts, 288 had elevated privileges and 362 belonged to senior-level officials.
Greenblatt also noted that 99.99% of the 18,000 accounts that staff cracked met the Department's password complexity requirements — including"Password-1234." The Department's investigation followed the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, according to the report, which resulted in a major
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