Pickled Pete's Puny Password Policy

[RobDownSouth]

Evidently former Fox News weekend anchor and current Secretary of Defense Pickled Pete Hegseth is quite popular on the so-called "dark web". Hackers have identified at least 4 email accounts he uses (or has used in the past) and noticed on striking anomaly:

He uses the exact same password for each different email account.

His standard password is apparently somebody's initials followed by 8 numbers in the form YYYYMMDD.

Very Secure, Mr. Secretary.

New York Times has the scoop.

 

[RoryN]

Deplorables will visit this thread once they're done changing their passwords.

 

[Politruk]

I make a point of using the same password for everything . . . but I am not responsible for keeping military or governmental secrets.

 

[Saint_Ann]

'In July, FBI director James Comey announced that the FBI investigation had concluded that Clinton had been "extremely careless" but recommended that no charges be filed because Clinton did not act with criminal intent, the historical standard for pursuing prosecution.'

Huh.

 

[ll74]

Who's this Hillary person? Is she new?

 

[DeluxAuto]

admin
password

 

[Lance_Castro]

“Mr. Hegseth did not appear to use those passwords for sensitive accounts, like banking.”


Huge story!
Lol

 

[Bray123]

Remember when Trump's Twitter account was hacked, turned out his password was MAGA2020!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55337192

 

[RobDownSouth]

Remember when Trump's Twitter account was hacked, turned out his password was MAGA2020!

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55337192

AND two-factor authentication was turned off. Too hard to understand for the over-70 demographic.