Trump's Twitter Account Was Hacked
Source: Political Wire
President Trumps Twitter account was hacked last week, after a Dutch researcher correctly guessed the presidents password: maga2020!, according to de Volkskrant.
Victor Gevers, a security expert, had access to Trumps direct messages, could post tweets in his name and change his profile. Gevers took screenshots when he had access to Trumps account.
Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/22/trumps-twitter-account-was-hacked/
brewens
(13,393 posts)one too and got in.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)TomCADem
(17,378 posts)Also, you would think that at minimum he would set up two-factor authentication for his twitter account, but I guess Trump's approach to cybersecurity is the same as his approach to COVID prevention.
thesquanderer
(11,953 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)Randomthought
(831 posts)With such an easy password, I'm surprised he hasn't been hacked before
TomCADem
(17,378 posts)A poor password, plus not using two-factor authentication for the most notorious twitter account in the world?
Grins
(7,132 posts)Im guessing those more familiar with Russian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, or even Hebrew languages. If the intelligence director of one of those countries had not already done that, 24x7, should be fired.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)...of King Rolands password for the Druidian Airlock in Spaceballs?
catbyte
(34,169 posts)PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)He doesn't know numbers very well. If he did, he really would be a billionaire.
AllaN01Bear
(17,358 posts)getagrip_already
(14,238 posts)It's actually clever because it's a play on the launch countdown.
Don't let russia know. it's a secwet.
Initech
(99,912 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)was a post that contained only the truth, and was in both upper and lower case letters. That was highly suspicious and it was alerted upon.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)and then links from those links to the site (in English) that had the screenshots - https://www.vn.nl/trump-twitter-hacked-again/
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)moonscape
(4,664 posts)"Victor is one of the three Dutch grumpy old hackers who gained access to Trumps Twitter account four years ago. The password was: yourefired. "
ffr
(22,645 posts)Security
Risk
crickets
(25,896 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)His account must have two factor authentication on it. A password is not enough.
BumRushDaShow
(127,292 posts)it does now, after guy who did it suggested it and the SS contacted him.
Last week a Dutch security researcher succeeded in logging into the Twitter account of the American President Donald Trump. Trump, an active Twitterer with 87 million followers, had an extremely weak and easy to guess password and had according to the researcher, not applied two-step verification.
Huib Modderkolk22 oktober 2020, 15:59
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Illegal
After all, hacking an account is illegal. If Gevers wants to make it clear that he is acting with good intentions, he will have to proceed responsibly and document his steps. He takes screenshots. Then he sends an email to Donald Trump I still had an old email account of his and sends a copy to the American organisation for digital security. He kindly advises Trump to take extra security measures. And perhaps use a somewhat longer password. Gevers even suggests one: !IWillMakeAmericaGreatAgain2020!, and adds instructions for activating two-step verification. But I didnt get a reply.
So, he tries to warn others. Trumps campaign team, his family. He sends messages via Twitter asking if someone will call Trumps attention to the fact that his Twitter account is not safe. He tags the CIA, the White House, the FBI, Twitter themselves. No response.
Gevers: Then on Saturday, I suddenly saw that two-step verification for the account had been activated. Two days later, in the evening, he receives an email from the American Secret Service. Friendly. They were interested in my information. I forwarded everything to them. On Tuesday they speak digitally. They thank Gevers, telling him that they were unaware of the security leak. This still leaves the security researcher with a number of questions: Why is it possible for someone from a different time zone to log into such an important account? Why doesnt Twitter demand better passwords? If I can access his account, then foreign nations can do so as well, right? Why arent the persons who are supposed to protect the President informed when someone reports that his account is unsafe?
Surprisingly easy
Matthijs Koot, security researcher at Secura, is also astonished at how easy it was for Gevers to take over Trumps account. To put it harshly: people who in the year 2020 still ignore basic advice on online security are a potential danger to themselves and to those around them.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/dutch-ethical-hacker-logs-into-trump-s-twitter-account~badaa815/
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)orangeFOREVER!!!!
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)pandr32
(11,446 posts)Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Not that I don't think Trump would use something that basic, but that I'd think if that were the case then it would have been compromised much earlier.
I would be nervous even trying to gain access to high profile accounts. I'm pretty sure I would instantly regret trying it if I decided to test some passwords on a head of state's twitter account and have it actually log me in.
Rural_Progressive
(1,105 posts)Trump knows more about cyber security than anyone else in the world. Believe that!!
moonseller66
(430 posts)[link:
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(115,674 posts)Marcuse
(7,392 posts)halobeam
(4,873 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,470 posts)I'm sure Mexico will pay for it.
Initech
(99,912 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Cyrano
(15,021 posts)Even if the MAGAs found that he was torturing kittens and screwing goats, they wouldn't care.
There is absolutely nothing that Dear Leader could do that they would find offensive.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)The real problem here are Hillary's emails and Hunter's Ukraine deals.
flor-de-jasmim
(2,124 posts)And least momentarily.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)Hackers could only help him
DFW
(54,050 posts)What could anyone possibly dream up that would make Trump look worse than he makes himself look already?
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)It would be a flop, as no one would believe it
DFW
(54,050 posts)"The Manchurian Candidate" meets "Of Thee I Sing."
But instead of ruling in favor of corn muffins, Trump's Supreme Court rules in favor of Jim Jones's Kool-Aid (Catholics excepted--they get to drink pre-tested Dr. Pepper).
soldierant
(6,647 posts)If you meet one somewhere, ask.
They have Catholics here, too, but not RC cola.
soldierant
(6,647 posts)in a soda that old.
There are numerous "catholic" churches, but the one that answers to the Vatican is the Roman Catholic Church - Roman Catholic - R.C.
It used to be a farly common wordplay, but with RC gone for so long, you have to be as old as I am to get it.
relayerbob
(6,508 posts)most of them already drank the Kool-Aid/Dr Pepper. And apparently testing is not required
soldierant
(6,647 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Both Twitter and the White House are denying a Dutch researcher's claim that he was able to access President Trump's account by guessing his password.
Dutch media outlets initially reported Victor Gevers, a security researcher, had correctly guessed the president's password was "maga2020!"
While Gevers posted a screenshot purporting to show himself having accessed the account, Motherboard notes that the screenshot shows the president's Twitter bio without the American flag emoji it displays.
Twitter, meanwhile, has said it has seen no evidence of improper access to the account, which has more than 87 million followers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-and-twitter-deny-dutch-researchers-claim-he-accessed-trumps-account/ar-BB1aja5L?li=BBnb7Kz
CYA?
SKKY
(11,771 posts)It's a good think I didn't get access because there is no measure of how jacked up I would have left his account.