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Hungary officials used weak passwords exposed in breach dump
Bellingcat linked nearly 800 Hungarian government email-password pairs to public breach data, including about 120 defense-related accounts, some tied to a 2023 NATO eLearning breach. Officials reused weak passwords like “FrankLampard,” “123456aA,” and “linkedinlinkedin” across third-party services. Stealer logs from recent months suggest several government machines now sit in attacker telemetry.
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