Government employees’ e-mail addresses and passwords were leaked by Gawker hack over the weekend. The list of compromised passwords was published on the Internet, and is readily available to anyone, other hackers. It includes an unknown number of accounts with the.gov domain, including those from the Department of Defense, NASA, National Institute of Health and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. One security expert said it is almost certain other attacks relying on the leaked passwords will follow. Security professionals have repeatedly pointed out people using only a few distinct passwords for all online accounts.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126324/hackers-could-use-gawker-info-to-attack-gov-t-workers.html