Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

Now the US director of national intelligence, Gabbard failed to follow basic cybersecurity practices on several of her personal accounts, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

  • orbitzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    1 2 3 4 5? Sounds like the combination for luggage…oh right it’s not the 80s, maybe l 2 3 4 $ 6 7 8 with those peaky restrictions of letter number and symbol.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The article is paywalled, but i would guess her info showed up in various “have i been pwned” databases, showing the same bad password for different sites over the course of years.

      • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I too was reluctant to read a Wired article bc in the past they’ve often been clickbait/shallow, but it looks like the last couple months they’ve been doing quality journalism.