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Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password

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On 2026-10-12 08:06, c186282 wrote:
> On 10/12/26 00:24, Woozy Song wrote:
>> c186282 wrote:
>>> https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in- 
>>> massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/
>>>
>>> At least three accounts at the company linked to a major
>>> breach of Denmark’s CPR register reportedly used the
>>> password “123456”, including an administrator account.
>>>
>>> At least three user accounts at the Funen-based IT company
>>> Pays used the password “123456” when hackers gained access
>>> to Denmark’s CPR register, Politiken reports.
>>>
>>> One of them was the company’s administrator account.
>>>
>>> The breach exposed information linked to around 8.8 million
>>> CPR numbers. The CPR system is Denmark’s central civil
>>> registration database and contains personal information
>>> on people living or previously registered in Denmark.
>>>
>>> . . .
>>>
>>>    Well ... if it's not easy to remember then they'll
>>>    write it on a Post-It and stick it to their monitor :-)
>>>
>>>    "Security" is mostly an illusion, the human factor
>>>    always works against it. Try to fix that and then
>>>    the humans can't/won't do anything useful.
>>>
>>>    Seems that few giant hacks are like in the movies,
>>>    super-clever people with super-computers deep
>>>    probing remote systems. It's idiots, and insiders
>>>    mostly - basically handing over the keys to the
>>>    kingdom.
>>>
>> My bank authenticator app prohibits PINs such as 1234 (or 2580 which 
>> is all digits in a line on keypad)
> 
>    Apparently not in Danish govt  :-)
> 
>    Likely very OLD passwords 'grandfathered' in.
> 
>    Anyway, as said, make it too difficult for the
>    humans and they'll find CHEATS that may be even
>    less secure than '123456'.

Like sharing passwords between people. Even with two factors.

> 
>    For Linux/Unix-based, it's not too hard to get
>    SSH to drop connections after a few bad passwords.
>    This simple fix makes it very inefficient for
>    outsiders to bombard the servers with random
>    shit.
> 
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-11 21:48 -0400
  Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2026-10-12 12:24 +0800
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-12 02:06 -0400
      Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-12 12:02 +0200
      Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-10-13 03:20 +0000
        Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-13 01:42 -0400
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-12 10:32 +0100
  Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-12 08:49 +0100
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-12 10:33 +0100
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-10-12 16:27 +0000
  Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-12 10:31 +0100
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-12 12:09 +0200
  Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-10-12 08:38 -0700
    Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-10-12 16:27 +0000
      Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-14 00:20 +0000
        Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-13 21:44 -0400
      Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-14 00:49 +0000
        Re: Idiots Rule - Giant Danish Data Breech - GUESS The Working Password c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-13 21:50 -0400
  Re: Idiots Rule [. . .] Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-10-12 20:33 +0000
    Re: Idiots Rule [. . .] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-13 08:15 +0100
      Re: Idiots Rule [. . .] "Peyton" <peyton@somewhere.com> - 2026-10-13 14:33 -0700
        Re: Idiots Rule [. . .] c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-13 21:51 -0400
        Re: Idiots Rule [. . .] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-14 08:50 +0100

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