Claim

DigiNotar breach INVOLVES domain administrator account

Fox-IT found that DigiNotar's Windows domain administrator account had a simple password that was easy to brute force.

Episode
EP 3 — DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“They found the Windows domain administrator account had a simple password and was easy to brute force.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 18454–18556

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-12T17:48:19.939543+00:00

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