Password 123456 abc123

Recently, government websites were hacked. They are TESDA (Technical Education and Skills Development Authority), DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment), NDCC (National Disaster Coordinating Council), DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) and DOH (Department of Health). The DOH website is probably the worst hit by the hacker (or hackers). Or the most funnily hit. What? I thought the hacker’s idea of drawing a cartoon-y *toot* right next to Sec. Duque was funny. Like Kevin Smith funny. As reported, all is fine now and everything is back to normal. My first thought was, “Oh really?” So I just checked out (Jan. 23, 2010, 10:00 PM, Saturday) the DOH website. Lo and behold, the site’s messed-up. Here’s a couple of really bad screen shots:

What is going on DOH? I hope you weren’t hacked again. And that whoever is in charge of the websites of the government agencies mentioned above have already changed or strengthened the passwords. Rockyou.com, a social network/data storage website of some sort (i really am not sure) was hacked on December 2009. The attacker got through the database of usernames and passwords of its 32 million users. To make it more fun, the attacker posted those username and passwords in the internet. Imperva, a data security firm, analyzed the passwords. They just released a report entitled “Consumer Password Worst Practices” and in it is the 20 common passwords in the database list:

Numbers 4 and 7 takes the cake. I’m wondering if any of these were the passwords of the government websites that were hacked.