Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends them through the mail

Re:Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends t... by jdietrich on Saturday August 17, 2019 @04:44PM (#20726236)

Last time I checked, the default WPA passphrase for Virgin Media routers was always set to eight capital letters, making it trivially crackable with a reasonable amount of GPU compute.

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Re:Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends t... by NikkiA on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:31PM (#20726845)

Talktalk's boxes have the WPA passcode on a removable plastic fob attached to the back of the box.

Great until, like our neighbours, you place the box in your windowsil facing into the room.

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Re:Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends t... by stordoff on Saturday August 17, 2019 @05:02PM (#20726353)

My current default Virgin WPA password is roughly of the form lLlllNllllll (l - lowercase letter, L - uppercase letter, N - number), installed about a year ago, and I know from seeing another one that the position and quantity of the uppercase letters and numbers aren't fixed.

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Re:Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends t... by dane-pgp on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:25PM (#20728047)

For the benefit of people whose fonts render "l" to look like "|", that's:

L U L L L N L L L L L L

(L - lowercase letter, U - uppercase letter, N - number)

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Re:Virgin Media (UK) stores passwords in plain text, sends t... by richm44 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @07:36PM (#20727134)

Must be a while ago then - it's 12 characters upper, lower and digits. Pretty reasonable.

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