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by qingcharles 678 days ago
When I was in my greyhat days I gained admin access[0] to a very big IIS web hosting provider. After spending a day trawling through their file system I found the actual admin password for their servers in a file. I tested it via their open RDP port. It worked.

Their password? "internet"

I sent them an email showing them their vulns. I never followed up to see if they did anything about it.

[0] they had a forum that allowed profile pic uploads but it didn't check they were images, so I crafted an ASP page which emulated a file explorer and uploaded that, then browsed to it.