Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337

The Register
By Avram PiltchOct 29, 2026, 5:00 am115 pts
Welcome back to PWNED, in which The Reg offers cautionary tales from folks who’ve left their doors wide open to attackers and lived to tell the tale. This week’s misadventure involves unpatched older machines and a password that was supposed to send a message to crims. Our story comes courtesy once again of…

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