Industry News: ESG5

The take: The personal data of hundreds of politicians in Germany were exposed. The hacked data includes contacts’ email addresses, private chats, mobile numbers, photographs and credit card details, which were all published on Twitter.

The attack vector: The prime suspect in the case indicated that he had acted alone, and it is believed he would not have been able to obtain the personal data had it not been for his target's use of weak passwords on their personal accounts.