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IHG Was Hacked Using Password “Qwerty1234”
loyaltylobby.com ^ | September 17, 2022 | John Ollila

Posted on 09/18/2022 8:08:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The hacker group from Vietnam called TeaPea contacted BBC and shared information about the hack with the British broadcaster.

"Our attack was originally planned to be a ransomware but the company’s IT team kept isolating servers before we had a chance to deploy it, so we thought to have some funny [sic]. We did a wiper attack instead,” one of the hackers said.

A wiper attack is a form of cyber-attack that irreversibly destroys data, documents and files.

The internal database was using Qwerty1234 as its password:

TeaPea say they gained access to IHG’s internal IT network by tricking an employee into downloading a malicious piece of software through a booby-trapped email attachment.

“The username and password to the vault was available to all employees, so 200,000 staff could see. And the password was extremely weak,” they told the BBC.

Surprisingly, the password was Qwerty1234, which regularly appears on lists of most commonly used passwords worldwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at loyaltylobby.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: cybercriminals; hacking; qwerty1234; teapea; vietnam; whataretheirfrnicks; wiperattack
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To: Falconspeed

And Leo is still podcasting and has a few columns, I think.

I enjoy his work with Steve Gibson.


21 posted on 09/18/2022 10:10:17 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: KarlInOhio
And I'm still angry about someone using my restaurant points to order a couple baskets of wings.

Think how i feel, they weren't even that good.

22 posted on 09/18/2022 10:29:40 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction." - Harry Truman)
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To: texas booster; Chode; carriage_hill

Locked the exwife out of the Master Password for the System with UoyKcufSoySauce. 20+ years ago.

Heard through the grapevine that they ended up pulling the Battery out of the Motherboard for 24 hours to clear it back to Factory that was blank (no characters) after spending 2 weeks trying to get it figured out.

All the &!tc}{ had to do was admit to all of our friends and family that she cheated.


23 posted on 09/18/2022 10:54:40 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Hahahahaahaha

I can’t remember the dog’s name some days and you think I’m going to remember which character I changed to “$”. I agree with your pass phrase suggestion, but I don’t trust myself to remember. I’ve lost that bet too many times. I have 2 address books that I try to remember to write them in.


24 posted on 09/18/2022 11:32:55 PM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: LibWhacker

I work in cybersecurity. You’d be mortified to know what sort of shortcuts are taken, esp. with passwords, on systems that are housing information on a LOT of people.


25 posted on 09/19/2022 3:24:59 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: Valpal1

867-5309, right?


26 posted on 09/19/2022 5:02:57 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He who pisses in the wind gets wet: HwP1tWgw


27 posted on 09/19/2022 5:31:59 AM PDT by Jumper ( )
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To: grame

I use a password manager, so I only have to remember one pass phrase with those substitutions.

My password manager probably has 200 or more accounts. It’s all so annoying…just like TSA at the airport. We waste so much time defending against the bad guys.


28 posted on 09/19/2022 5:32:25 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: Jumper

Nice!


29 posted on 09/19/2022 5:33:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I do too but it has been my experience that updates can play funny with them. Like have them for a snack and they disappear. So I stopped relying on it to be my sole storage.


30 posted on 09/19/2022 5:48:17 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: grame

I use a popular one and also started using the somewhat new Apple pw storage system. I really like the simplicity of the Apple design. So I’m using two now.

My commercial one is not 100% rock solid which worries me. The company has been sold once which is also worrisome.


31 posted on 09/19/2022 5:53:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: mabarker1

LOL...


32 posted on 09/19/2022 7:35:16 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: from occupied ga

They should have used a stronger password and then pasted it on 200,000 sticky notes stuck to the undersides of keyboards
= = =

Our fired secretary did that.

She left: “SubmitObey”. It worked.


33 posted on 09/19/2022 7:39:02 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: grame

The most important password protection is to name your new puppy with a truly original name.

;-)


34 posted on 09/19/2022 7:43:34 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Past 70, no new pups here. But I agree, that was a part of our plan years ago.


35 posted on 09/19/2022 7:55:40 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: BipolarBob

Mine is:

********

A lot of people use that. Like when the cashier lady comes over to the self-checkout cash register to correct something I’ve screwed up. She punches in...********


36 posted on 09/19/2022 7:58:03 AM PDT by moovova
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To: T-Bird45

Lol, nope.


37 posted on 09/19/2022 8:53:27 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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