{"id":482807,"date":"2020-10-21T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/?p=482807"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:16:43","slug":"news-trump-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/news-trump-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Twitter account was hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"info-box\">\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vn.nl\/trump-twitter-hacked-again\/\">This is the short version of the story, read our full report HERE.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The account @realDonaldTrump, which has 87.3 million followers, was only protected by a password at the time, not by Two-Factor-Authentication. It only took Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers seven tries to guess the password \u2018maga2020!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Vrij Nederland has seen screenshots of Gevers\u2019 access to the US president\u2019s account. The files contain sensitive information and cannot be fully disclosed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_482691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482691\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-482691 size-image_640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1a-640x560.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1a-320x280.png 320w, https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1a-640x560.png 640w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-482691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Victor Gevers\u2019 computer, made on 16 oktober, 2020 while accessing Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is not the first time Gevers has accessed Trump\u2019s Twitter account. Together with friends, he managed to gain access in October 2016, while at an information security conference in Gent, Belgium. They found Trump\u2019s password in a leaked database (\u2018yourefired\u2019). Vrij Nederland published an article narrating this story last month.<\/p>\n<p>Whomever has access to a Twitter account, can send tweets in its name, change the password and the profile picture, and \u2013 if one would want to \u2013 download a datafile containing all of the account\u2019s direct messages (DMs). Ethical hackers like Gevers will never do this \u2013 as a principle. They will alert a poorly secured user or company through a Responsible Disclosure procedure and report. Previous attempts to warn the US President via such a procedure failed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_482693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-482693\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-482693 size-image_1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1b-1280x419.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1b-320x105.png 320w, https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1b-640x209.png 640w, https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1b-1280x419.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/afbeelding-1b-1920x628.png 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"419\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-482693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Victor Gevers\u2019 attempts to reach Donald Trump via &#8216;responsible disclosure&#8217; report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is unclear why the US President\u2019s account Two-Factor Authentication was disabled at the time. The breach shows that even the information security of one of the most powerful individuals on the planet is flawed. It is still possible &#8211; to this day &#8211; to access an account that has so many followers without Two-Factor-Authentication. Twitter has not responded to Gevers\u2019 and Vrij Nederland\u2019s repeated inquiries as to how it is possible that the account of the President of the United States of America did not have the extra security at that time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: an earlier version of this story stated that the hackers &#8216;guessed&#8217; Trumps password. This phrasing is incorrect, and was therefore changed to &#8217;they found Trump&#8217;s password in a leaked database&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the short version of the story, read our full report HERE. The account @realDonaldTrump, which has 87.3 million followers, was only protected by a password at the time, not by Two-Factor-Authentication. It only took Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers seven tries to guess the password \u2018maga2020!\u2019. Vrij Nederland has seen screenshots of Gevers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","dossier-tech","article_type-korte-update"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Gerard Janssen","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482807\/revisions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"name":"Gerard Janssen","href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}