A caller who apparently hacked the Haines Borough School District’s phone system may have accessed the system through a default password to an employee’s voice mail account, according to Bruce Messerschmidt of Alaska Power and Telephone.
A default password, a familiar sequence such as “1234,” typically is assigned when a phone system is installed. Then, individual users are asked to reset passwords to their individual accounts, using a less discernible series of numbers.
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