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Leaked employee passwords open up Fortune 500 companies to hackers

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It's one thing when your iCloud account with personal photos gets hacked. It's another when your Fortune 500 company has a data breach because your office credentials were leaked online.


At 221 of the Fortune 500 companies, Fortune magazine's list of the the top 500 U.S. public corporations ranked by gross revenue, employees' credentials are posted publicly online for hackers to steal and reuse in cyberattacks, according to new research from the web intelligence firm Recorded Future.


Corporations, especially highly sensitive targets like Fortune 500 companies, spend a great deal on securing their networks against hackers, but that could be for naught if an employee carelessly uses his office credentials to sign up for, say, a gaming forum. Read more...


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