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Passwords are still widely used, but a password alone can leave an account exposed if it is stolen, reused, or captured through phishing.
Summary
Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that compromised credentials were used as an initial access vector in 22% of the breaches it analyzed.
This is a brief wire summary — the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself — they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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