Even presidents use weak passwords

The email account of Syrian president was hacked by Anonymous along with other accounts on mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs. The password of 33 accounts including the Syrian president’s one was 12345. Of course, very easy to remember but very easy to be hacked or guessed. 12345 is the second weakest password after 123 and almost half of the accounts on that mail server they were using it. Even if it was the default password nobody cared enough to change it. Hundreds of emails leaked and that could be prevented by a stronger password. Hackers gained access to 78 email accounts and the damage from leaked emails is very big. The lesson here is that you should use stronger passwords if you don’t want your emails fall into wrong hands.