French Central Bank password was 123456 (really)

Re:French Central Bank password was 123456 (really) by dfc on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:24PM (#4597848)

The password for the "particular computer system which handles the consumer indebtedness files (basically people who are flagged as having a very bad credit history)" was 123456. Nobody could have made an ACH transfer from the french government's account.

As a community can we please refrain for linking to Hyperbolic Link Bait? This is the second time in 24 hours I have seen such a hyperbolic and misleading title.[1] If it is a great article a little hyperbole is acceptable, but both articles have been lousy. There is no reason to encourage websites to keep this behavior up.

[1] The other article was originally titled something along the lines of "Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football" Fortunately the HN moderators stepped in and edited the title here at HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595042

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Re:French Central Bank password was 123456 (really) by martokus on Monday October 01, 2012 @12:37PM (#4597925)

Moreover what is written is not at all true. My manager is French and here's what he said: the guy got that number from the forum. He called and was prompted for a pass so he entered 1234 (not even 123456 as claimed in the article). The line said wrong password so he closed down. However the phone server raised an alert about a failed login attempt so they closed down the line and investigated for a potential breach. And yes 654321 would have worked as well as any other wrong password in fact.

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