☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoChina reportedly hacked UK Defense Ministry's payroll system, exposing names of current and former service members. Russia and China now have a lot the information about UK spies.news.sky.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkChina reportedly hacked UK Defense Ministry's payroll system, exposing names of current and former service members. Russia and China now have a lot the information about UK spies.news.sky.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmygrad.mlworld@lemmy.world
minus-squareMolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-28 months agoI bet China must have reaaaalllly dedicated all its national resources and efforts over the last few years to achieve a hack of this magnitude. Unrelated, remember when the UK treasury was trying to recruit a head of cyber security and only offered a salary of £50k?
minus-squareMayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months ago“Oi, what you mean the bloke we paid 50k to put the passwords in plaintext on a public-facing server?”
minus-squareSons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoThere was a bit of confusion about that cuz in England they call “passwords” Wordie-Daffer-SiteSeeSee.
I bet China must have reaaaalllly dedicated all its national resources and efforts over the last few years to achieve a hack of this magnitude.
Unrelated, remember when the UK treasury was trying to recruit a head of cyber security and only offered a salary of £50k?
“Oi, what you mean the bloke we paid 50k to put the passwords in plaintext on a public-facing server?”
There was a bit of confusion about that cuz in England they call “passwords” Wordie-Daffer-SiteSeeSee.