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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked (www.businessinsider.com)
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Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country's natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used "password-1234" on their accounts.

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[–] TornadoRex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which also means your company is storing your old passwords which is a big security issue

[–] Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

My company's IT department is terrible. Nothing is done right. And they're a multi-billion dollar company.

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not necessarily, it could mean they’re storing the old salted hashes.

I’m pretty sure this is a setting in Windows group policy, I assume Microsoft does it correctly.