2021 SPECIAL REPORT
U.S. Government Credential Exposure
There is arguably no bigger producer, collector, consumer, and disseminator of data on the planet than the United States government. And yet, SpyCloud analysis has shown that its vast network of employees at the federal, state and local levels, including its contractors, are leaving that data exposed to enormous risk.
In 2020 alone, SpyCloud found:
- 269,690 plaintext government credentials leaked in 465 breaches.
- More than 1 million pairs of exposed emails and passwords for corporate accounts at the 27 largest companies in the defense industrial base.
- 800,000 exposed corporate credentials (more than 7,000 per company) for employees at the 109 Fortune 1000 companies in the energy sector.
These exposures provide potential avenues for bad actors to access government resources and create massive risk in the government supply chain.
As this report explains, the prevalence of password reuse and loose credential security protocols are gifts to cybercriminals that expose the U.S. to significant risks. Our “Special Report: 2021 U.S. Government Credential Exposure” provides the prescriptive guidance needed to address this trend, along with a new framework for securing credentials that applies to employees, suppliers, and citizens.
Solution:
Account Takeover Prevention
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