Analysis from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) found that around one in six people use the names of their pets as passwords, with one in three people also using the same password across multiple websites and accounts. These types of weak passwords are not uncommon. As US politician Katie Porter said at the time, most parents are using stronger passwords to stop their children from "watching too much YouTube on their iPad". It was revealed that ‘solarwinds123’, a password created and leaked by an intern, had been publicly accessible through a private GitHub repository since June 2018, enabling hackers to plan and carry out the massive supply chain attack.Įven if the password wasn't leaked and made publicly available, it wouldn't take long for a hacker to break past the security, or even guess the password outright.
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