German Interior minister's website pwned in wiretap protest
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Hacktivists pwned the website of Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday in protest against new wiretapping and data retention laws They posted links inviting visitors to a protest website "Vorratsdatenspeicherung".
Later reports suggest that hackers were able to gain control over the site after breaking into it using a dictionary attack that revealed the password for the Typo3 CMS was "gewinner" (or winner in English).
Big brother is having weak password policies. People like those who cannot even follow the most simple security guidelines cannot be trusted. Even if he probably doesn't maintain the page himself, this shows that he can't even teach those around him how to deal with security.