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Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years (www.wired.com)

submitted 11 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Now the US director of national intelligence, Gabbard failed to follow basic cybersecurity practices on several of her personal accounts, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

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[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

1 2 3 4 5? Sounds like the combination for luggage...oh right it's not the 80s, maybe l 2 3 4 $ 6 7 8 with those peaky restrictions of letter number and symbol.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Uhhh how is this even known?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You’ll never guess

[–] koper@feddit.nl 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Read the article, it's in the second paragraph.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The article is paywalled, but i would guess her info showed up in various "have i been pwned" databases, showing the same bad password for different sites over the course of years.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 months ago

I too was reluctant to read a Wired article bc in the past they've often been clickbait/shallow, but it looks like the last couple months they've been doing quality journalism.