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Anonymous Hacks Syrian President; His Password Was 12345
5:00 PM - February 8, 2012 by Jane McEntegart - source: Forbes
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Anonymous-Syrian-president-email-password-leaked-hacked,14663.html
Time to change everyone's password to 54321.
If we're honest, many of us are likely guilty of using sub-par passwords.
However, chances are, if we were hacked, no one but us would have to know about
it. The same can't be said for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who is facing
public ridicule after his account was compromised.
It seems al-Assad recently became the target of web hactivist group Anonymous;
the group managed to successfully hack into his email account this week. That
said, we imagine the job was something of a bore for Anonymous, which just last
week revealed that it had managed to eavesdrop on a phone call between Scotland
Yard and the FBI. After all, it can't have taken much hacking prowess to access
an account protected with the world's second weakest password: 12345. To make
matters worse, Anonymous was also able to access 78 accounts belonging to
al-Assad's staff, with 33 of them using the same 12345 or 123456 passwords.
Forbes cites Israel's Haaretz newspaper in reporting that the attacked the mail
server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs overnight on Sunday. The
breach has resulted in hundreds of emails from al-Assad and his staff being
leaked. Among them was correspondence between Syrian UN Mission Sheherazad
Jaafari and Assad's media advisor Bouthaina Shaaban discussing preparation for
the president's interview with Barbara Walters.
Syria's no stranger to the attention of Anonymous at this point. In August of
2011, the group hacked the government's defence ministry. Just a few weeks
later, they hacked into and vandalized several of the country's government
websites.
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