OIG report finds US Department of Interior allows easily guessable passwords

The Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a report criticizing the department's cybersecurity practices, TechCrunch reports. The OIG investigators found they could easily "crack thousands of employee user accounts" because lax security practices allowed passwords, such as "Password1234." The report detailed how agencies within the department "bucked nearly two decades of the government’s own cybersecurity guidance," which requires two-factor user authentication.