SolarWinds Hack Exposes Risks of Weak Passwords 🔓

The IT firm SolarWinds suffered a massive hack when attackers plugged malicious code into the company's software.<br />According to Business Insider, the code was then distributed to 18,000 of its 300,000 clients.<br />But SolarWinds was warned in 2019 that its 'solarwinds123' password for its update server could be accessed by anyone.<br />Security researcher Vinoth Kumar, who sounded the alarm over such a dodgy password, told Reuters anyone could have 'easily' broken in.<br />SolarWinds says experts are now working to identify weak security points in the company's system that could have led to the attack.