Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked

• A report from the US Department of the Interior showed that 21% of employee accounts could be hacked.
• The report also noted that nearly 500 employees used “Password-1234” to protect their accounts.
• One staff member wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post urging others to learn from the report.

Special characters. Regular changes. Don’t click on suspicious links. Anyone who has sat through a workplace cybersafety training has undoubtedly heard these phrases repeated again and again. 

And yet, password safety is still a problem, even among federal employees. A report from the Department of the Interior reveals the most-used password among their employees last year was “Password-1234.”