Chinese hackers were able to access sensitive data stores over the course of eight years after stealing passwords from a handful of top executives, including the company’s CEO. Security experts say poor password management practices can cause a ripple effect that puts some of an enterprises most sensitive databases at risk. The big question that many security professionals are asking today is why werent those credentials ever changed during that long stretch of time? According to many experts, the issue of not changing passwords on critical infrastructure is epidemic.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/bad-password-management-exposes-critical-databases