‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed
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The TfL breach costing £39M and forcing 27,000 staff password resets is a case study in how access to a single core system can cascade across an entire city’s operations. If you run critical infra, re-check who holds your “keys to the kingdom” and how quickly you could rotate them under live-fire conditions.
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