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WeWork Employees Used an Alarmingly Insecure Printer Password (techcrunch.com) 29

Posted by msmash from the security-woes dept.
A shared user account used by WeWork employees to access printer settings and print jobs had an incredibly simple password -- so simple that a customer guessed it. From a report: Jake Elsley, who works at a WeWork in London, said he found the user account after a WeWork employee at his location mistakenly left the account logged in. WeWork customers like Elsley normally have an assigned seven-digit username and a four-digit passcode used for printing documents at WeWork locations. But the username for the account used by WeWork employees was just four-digits: "9999". Elsley told TechCrunch that he guessed the password because it was the same as the username. ("9999" is ranked as one of the most common passwords in use today, making it highly insecure.)

The "9999" account is used by and shared among WeWork community managers, who oversee day-to-day operations at each location, to print documents for visitors who don't have accounts to print on their own. The account cannot be used to access print jobs sent to other customer accounts. Elsley said that the "9999" account could not see the contents of documents beyond file names, but that logging in to the WeWork printing web portal could allow him to release other people's pending print jobs sent to the "9999" account to any other WeWork printer on the network.
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