Passwords used by individuals employed by U.S. federal, state and topical anaesthetic governments were between those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the period of time, according to a paper by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

If the watchwords published online by the Gnosis hacker radical were also used by those individuals for their work e-mail accounts, the passwords could be employed in future targeted attacks against authorities employees to plant malware or slip other information.