- A false alert warning of an inbound missile was broadcast in Hawaii on Saturday.
- Since then, people have discovered that a photo taken in Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency for a news article in July includes a sticky note with a password.
- Hawaii says the alert was sent was because "an employee pushed the wrong button," not because of a hack, but the photo has sparked criticism about the agency's level of security.
On Saturday, people in Hawaii were awakened by a terrifying false alert about an inbound missile. Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has said a worker clicked the wrong item in a drop-down menu and sent it, and that its system was not hacked.
"It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the changeover of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button," Gov. David Ige said.
But an Associated Press photo from July that recently resurfaced on Twitter has raised questions about the agency's cybersecurity practices.
In it, the agency's operations officer poses in front of a battery of screens. Attached to one is a password written on a Post-it note...."
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