The Netherlands Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that a Dutch hacker accessed the president’s Twitter Donald Trump upon discovering that his password was “maga2020“and announced that he will not file charges against him in the case of an “ethical hacker” which alerted U.S. authorities to the situation.
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The “hacker” Victor Gevers made it public in late October that he had accessed Trump’s personal Twitter account after only seven intentions with different password versionsin, until he came up with the correct one, which was “maga2020” (lowercase abbreviation of his campaign slogan, Make America great again).
In addition, Trump had the double-checking system turned off, so when trying to access, Gevers does not need to send a message to the president’s cell phone or email to authorize access to the account, something confirmed by Dutch prosecutors after an investigation by the cyber unit of the national police.
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Although both Twitter and the White House have always denied that this had happened, the prosecution confirmed on Wednesday that Gevers will finally access the account, but he did not take advantage of the situation to tweet on Trump’s behalf, read your private messages, change your password or profile picture, possible options when accessing a Twitter account.
Attempts to alert the president, his team at the White House, the campaign, and even members of his family about the security of his Twitter account will fail, but days later, the US secret services contacted Gevers to thank him for the warning.
Trump changed his key and turned on double-checking. Although hacking is punishable in the Netherlands, the Prosecutor’s Office considers that Gevers had met criteria for not being charged: is an ethical “hacker”, dedicated to “responsible disclosure”, and contacts authorities under his real name, alerted them to the situation and advice on how to fix the vulnerability of Trump’s account.
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This is not the first time Gevers, 44, has accessed the US president’s accounte. As early as October 2016, he and several friends came across Trump’s password in a database leaked by hackers.
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