Dec 17, 2020 10:26:00

Dutch authorities admit that hackers have logged in to President Trump's Twitter account

In October 2020, Dutch security expert Victor Gevers reported that he '

logged in with the password for President Trump's Twitter account .' Twitter and the White House did not admit that the account had been hacked, but the Dutch public prosecutor's office investigating the case admitted that 'the hack by Gevers was certainly done.'

OM: Nederlandse hacker die inlogde op Twitter-account Trump niet strafbaar | De Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/om-nederlandse-hacker-die-inlogde-op-twitter-account-trump-niet-strafbaar~b9820c07/

Trump's Twitter account was hacked, Dutch ministry confirms | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/16/trumps-twitter-account-was-hacked-dutch-ministry-affirms

Gevers is a person who has logged in to President Trump's Twitter account in 2016 as well. At this time, the password was 'yourefired', and then the password was changed by 2020. Gevers repeatedly challenged with various passwords and succeeded in logging in with 'maga2020!'.

Twitter and the White House denied that there was such a hack. It was pointed out that the profile edit screen of President Trump's Twitter account, which Gevers showed as evidence, was just taken to look like the real thing, and it may not have been actually hacked. ..

Since it is a criminal offense in the Netherlands for non-account owners to read or tweet messages that are hacked, a high-tech criminal team has been investigating Gevers' movement since November 2020. I did. As a result, the Dutch Public Prosecutor's Office has confirmed that Mr. Gevers's account hacking of President Trump has certainly taken place.

However, Gevers is trying to inform Twitter, the FBI, the CIA, the White House, etc. of the problem of such hacking, and it was admitted that it was a special situation called 'responsible disclosure', and it was a detective. It is not expected to be held responsible.