Not physical safes, but there's a fascinating story about Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm that lost over 600 employees in the attack, calling in Mi

Not physical safes, but there's a fascinating story about Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services firm that lost over 600 employees in the attack, calling in Microsoft security experts to break into hundreds of employee accounts they no longer had access to. Client money was tied up in these accounts and they needed to regain access before the stock market opened up again. To help in this task, they had to call the family members of still-missing employees and ask for personal information that might be included in passwords: "What is your wedding anniversary? Tell me again where he went for undergrad? You guys have a dog, don’t you? What’s her name? You have two children. Can you give me their birth dates?” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-of-passwords.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-...