‘Snoopy’, ‘Adolf’ and ‘Password’: The Hungarian Government Passwords Exposed Online
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04/09/the-hungarian-government-passwords-exposed-online/?utm_source=bluesky
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‘Snoopy’, ‘Adolf’ and ‘Password’: The Hungarian Government Passwords Exposed Online
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04/09/the-hungarian-government-passwords-exposed-online/?utm_source=bluesky
Posted by BoJaNYK
11 Comments
> Some government workers used easy-to-guess passwords such as variations of the word “Password” or the number sequence “1234567”.
That’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life!
bitwarden should be mandatory.
Professional government.
esnupi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Xmud9iX3w
I wouldn’t have guessed ‘Snoopy’ or ‘Password”
Adolf surprises no-one with the authoritarian crap they are doing
I imagine‘Orbanisamassivecunt’ is too common amidst being used by much of the electorate.
ADOLF?!?!
But why Snoopy?
A lot of those passwords aren’t terrible. You probably aren’t going to brute force 123456aA. It looks simple at first but it isn’t simple to a computer trying random attacks.
Brute forcing also dies when any system introduces a simple timer. Double the retry wait time for any wrong attempt.
In reality, all of these passwords were scraped from a hack, which was likely a simple phishing attack. The weak link is the one idiot. Every time.