My first real job was a security nightmare. They used the same easy-to-guess password for everything: "It's this word that is closely related to what we do, but replace the letter o with a zero". When I raised concerns about this practice and suggested we start using a password manager company-wide, they claimed it was secure enough but they'd look into it.
A few months later, we got the new password policy: "The company password is now this other word that's closely related to what we do, but replace the letter i with a 1".
In that same year, multiple of our customer's accounts got hacked, everyone at the company was scrambling to save the data and secure the accounts. No passwords or policies were changed.
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My first real job was a security nightmare. They used the same easy-to-guess password for everything: "It's this word that is closely related to what we do, but replace the letter o with a zero". When I raised concerns about this practice and suggested we start using a password manager company-wide, they claimed it was secure enough but they'd look into it.
A few months later, we got the new password policy: "The company password is now this other word that's closely related to what we do, but replace the letter i with a 1".
In that same year, multiple of our customer's accounts got hacked, everyone at the company was scrambling to save the data and secure the accounts. No passwords or policies were changed.