Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
This week’s tale of woe comes from a company that left a door wide open for miscreants, but was lucky it didn't have to pay the price.Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Anonymity is available upon request.Our story comes courtesy of a reader we’ll Regomize as Manny. A few years ago, Manny got a job working at a law firm.
- ▪This week’s tale of woe comes from a company that left a door wide open for miscreants, but was lucky it didn't have to pay the price.Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network?
- ▪Anonymity is available upon request.Our story comes courtesy of a reader we’ll Regomize as Manny.
- ▪A few years ago, Manny got a job working at a law firm.
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| Original publisher | www.theregister.com - Articles |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/16/law-firm-insisted-on-one-password-to-rule-them-all/5269484 |
| Publication time | Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-16T08:13:24.544Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-16T08:18:28.908Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); SECURITY Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything Avram Piltch Avram Piltch US EDITOR US editor Published thu 16 Jul 2026 // 08:00 UTC PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we gather lessons from organizations that didn’t take security seriously enough.
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