Sounds funny right ? But that is the case with Syria’s governmental officials as a recent hacking event of notorious hacking group anonymous revels.
33 out of 78 hack email accounts of Syrian officials and politicians were using 1234 or 12345 as their password.
A #LulzFinancial Release
http://webmail.mopa.gov.sy
mysql> select Account, Password from UserSession;
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| Account | Password |
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| hsm@mopa.gov.sy | mopamopa | dead account
| bassam.issa@mopa.gov.sy | Bassam7 | dead account
| mansour.azzam@mopa.gov.sy | basam |
| rakan.hassan@mopa.gov.sy | 19791 | empty account
| lina.alkinayeh@mopa.gov.sy | iloveyou |
| po@mopa.gov.sy | press2010press |
| f.kouli@mopa.gov.sy | amir06 |
| m.ibrahim@mopa.gov.sy | Alisar2005 | last done
| akram.issa@mopa.gov.sy | 3130178 |
| salma.kahale@mopa.gov.sy | Khuloud |
| ppo@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| a.bshara@mopa.gov.sy | newnewsabeer |
| n.kabibo@mopa.gov.sy | expat5 |
| bassam.skheta@mopa.gov.sy | fadea6669966 |
| info@mopa.gov.sy | honda2011 |
| admin@mopa.gov.sy | Bassam7 |
| b.shaaban@mopa.gov.sy | kkbbnnrr |
| support@mopa.gov.sy | 25 |
| l.omar@mopa.gov.sy | GODisgreatand1 |
| n.yasin@mopa.gov.sy | fujimori |
| ramia.salloum@mopa.gov.sy | 123vivasyria |
| b@mopa.gov.sy | Bassam7 |
| ruba.darwish@mopa.gov.sy | karimo2009f=-0 |
| joelle.mesmar@mopa.gov.sy | mopa777 |
| leila.sibaey@mopa.gov.sy | leila2009 |
| suhail.abdulatif@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| sondos_sosi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| hussein.sabbagh@mopa.gov.sy | 313313 |
| sh.esber@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| wassim.al-dehni@mopa.gov.sy | system |
| hassan.dayoub@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| fares.kallas@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| q.alkassab@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| ahmed.moutam@mopa.gov.sy | qw12345 |
| sondos.sousi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| shadi@mopa.gov.sy | 710166 |
| wael.hmeidan@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| sendos-sosi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| yyy@mopa.gov.sy | 123456 |
| sondos-sosi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| bassel.houranieh@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| bassam.issa\@mopa.gov.sy | Bassam7 |
| fkouli@mopa.gov.sy | amir06 |
| mounaalsaid@mopa.gov.sy | espoir |
| jawan.alfadel@mopa.gov.sy | 140111 |
| hamzeh.a-h@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| samer.abu.quba@mopa.gov.sy | kungfu/0 |
| ramia,salloum@mopa.gov.sy | 123vivasyria |
| majd@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| loai@mopa.gov.sy | 123456 |
| ofl@mopa.gov.sy | sonyroot |
| mouna.alsaid@mopa.gov.sy | espoir |
| d.salam@mopa.gov.sy | 1681980 |
| yanal.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| lunachebel@mopa.gov.sy | 123456 |
| rabiee.nasr@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| bahaa.issa@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| laura.khudair@mopa.gov.sy | vgn-z36gd |
| ayham@mopa.gov.sy | testmail |
| mopasupport@mopa.gov.sy | mopa2012 |
| heba.hamdan@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| kholoud.altayyeb@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| mohsen.obeido@mopa.gov.sy | mohsen125 |
| weam@mopa.gov.sy | 123456 |
| hala.aldakkak@mopa.gov.sy | escada1234 |
| yara.moualla@mopa.gov.sy | shehrazad |
| may.bachour@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| m.shoghuri@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| platinum@mopa.gov.sy | testing |
| hamsa.alkassir@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| dana.bashkour@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| sondos.sosi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| rama.mitry@mopa.gov.sy | 123456 |
| m.moselmanieh@mopa.gov.sy | m123456 |
| a.allan@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| a.issa@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| nagham.nano@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
| zeena.nehlawi@mopa.gov.sy | 12345 |
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News Agency Forbes criticizes and alerts all officials around the world for their lack of urgency to protect their national interest by avoiding simple and basic steps of online security.
Obviously, they never watched “spaceballs” LOL! (“1234? That’s the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!”)