Article C9KC Hundreds of .Gov Credentials Found In Public Hacker Dumps

Hundreds of .Gov Credentials Found In Public Hacker Dumps

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Andy Greenberg
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It's no surprise that careless government employees use their .gov email addresses to sign up for all sorts of personal accounts. But when those insecure third party services are breached by hackers-and if those employees were foolish enough to reuse their .gov passwords, too-that carelessness can offer a dead-simple backdoor into federal agencies, with none of the usual ["]

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