Security News > 2022 > October > How the "pizza123" password could take down an organization
Criminal hackers took responsibility for a recent FastCompany breach, saying they exploited an easily guessed default password, "Pizza123." The business magazine reused the weak password across a dozen WordPress accounts, according to the hackers, who described the attack in their own article on FastCompany.com before the publication took the site down.
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