Report: Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password ‘P@$$w0rd’

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Report: Ethiopian INSA Agents Hacked: 142 agents chose the predictable password ‘P@$$w0rd’
May 30, 2019
https://www.safetydetective.com/blog/report-ethiopia-insa-leak/

SafetyDetective’s research lab discovered a leak online regarding the Ethiopian National Security Agency (INSA).
The hackers managed to easily scrape a few hundred of INSA agents’ email addresses and passwords, allowing them to potentially log in to INSA’s email server (and personal emails using the same credentials).

While the fact that hackers could so easily hack a security agency – and the Ethiopian INSA especially – is alarming, what was even worse was that the passwords we discovered in use by INSA were basic (and hackable) beyond belief. Basically, they weren’t salted and hashed.
In fact, out of the 300 agent email addresses we scraped, we counted 142 uses of ‘p@$$w0rd’ (that’s almost half), and 62 passwords containing a `123’ sequence

Since the data was scraped a while ago, it now seems that these credentials no longer work, meaning INSA has either reset these passwords or changed the internal email server.
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