Hacking Team MD used 'Passw0rd' as password - for every system

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Company that helps nefarious regimes to spy on their citizens hacked - with its lax security laid bare for all to see

Hacking Team, a company that helps governments to spy on their citizens, has been hacked by an unidentified group of hackers and its internal files uploaded to an account on Mega, Kim Dotcom's late...

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