Probably a boring answer but I know my grandmother’s credit card information. I live with and help take care of her, so she doesn’t mind sharing it with me. Not like I’m planning to do anything nefarious, but I guess technically it could ruin her financially.

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    Lawyers, accountants, and software engineers accumulate these things like you wouldn’t believe. We can’t tell you about current secrets, only stale ones.

    I once knew that the top level password used at a corporation valued at 6 billion dollars was ‘password123’. They had no backups, no VPN, and that password was used at all the high-value access points. It’s since been fixed, but it was that for years.

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      It’s since been fixed, but it was that for years.

      I like that this implies you regularly checked

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        Regularly had to use it to do work I was contracted to do.

        Company went public one day, they restructured massively to become more efficient. I imagine that kind of stuff stopped then, but don’t really know.

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      “What the CEO wants, the CEO gets” - head of IT doing nothing for 300k/yr