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posted by chromas on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the Czech-your-password dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

A Czech court recently sentenced two hackers to three years in prison for accessing Vodafone customer's mobile accounts and use them to purchase 600,000 Czech Koruna worth of gambling services. Vodafone reportedly wants the hacked victim's to pay for these charges as they were using an easy password of "1234".

According to reporting from Czech news site idnes.cz, the hackers accessed mobile customer's accounts by using the password 1234. Once they were able to gain access, they ordered new SIM cards that they picked up from various branches. As they knew the phone number and password they were able to pick up the SIM card and install it in their phones without any other verification.

This allowed the attackers to charge over 600,000 Czech Koruna, or approximately 30K USD, for gambling services.

What do you lot think, should there be a blatant stupidity tax?

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vodafone-tells-hacked-customers-with-1234-password-to-pay-back-money/


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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday September 12 2018, @11:56PM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday September 12 2018, @11:56PM (#733909) Journal

    Even worse, this site already has your PIN [deviantart.com].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @06:03AM (#734045)

    The comments on there are full of people who would be in the highest idiot-tax bracket. For example:

    I literally just wasted one+ hours of my life, making a script that then took 2 minutes more of my life to create a list of all the possible combinations...
    When in reality I should've just Googled it first to see if someone else already had a list...

    Why did I do this to my self ;~;

    I don't even know where to start with this, but at least he tried, unlike all the others who apparently can't count.

    • (Score: 1) by darkpixel on Friday September 14 2018, @12:29AM

      by darkpixel (4281) on Friday September 14 2018, @12:29AM (#734583)

      I'm not sure why it would take hours of his life.

      Bash:

      for n in {0000..9999}; do echo $n; done

      Node:

      const pad = require('pad');
      var i;
      for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
      console.log(pad(4, i, '0'));
      }

      Python:

      for i in range(0, 9999):
          print(format(i, '04'))

      BASIC:

      10 PRINT "You're still programming in BASIC? Go fuck yourself."