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San Francisco, Oct 23 (IANS): The White House and Twitter have denied that a Dutch cybersecurity researcher entered his account with the password ‘maga2020!’
White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere told The Verge: “This is not at all true, but we do not comment on the security procedures on the president’s social media accounts.”
According to reports on Thursday, Victor Gevers, a security researcher at the GDI Foundation and president of the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, said that he guessed the password for the US president’s account and was successful on the fifth attempt.
The Dutch Volkskrant newspaper and Vrij Nederland magazine were the first to report the news, citing screenshots and interviews with the researcher.
“After logging in, he sent an email to US-CERT to reveal the security bug,” the report says.
Gevers said Trump’s Twitter password was changed shortly after.
Trump’s account was not protected by two-factor authentication, which gave Gevers access to the president’s account.
A Twitter spokesperson said: “We have not seen any evidence to support this claim, not even from the article published today in the Netherlands.”
“We proactively implement account security measures for a designated group of Twitter accounts related to high-profile elections in the United States, including branches of the federal government.”
Vrij Nederland claimed that Gevers was responsible for a strange tweet sent by Trump on October 16.
The tweet quoted the satirical publication The Babylon Bee in an apparently serious capacity.
This is the second time Gevers has claimed to have access to Trump’s Twitter account.
In 2016, Gevers said he and two others extracted and cracked Trump’s password as “you got fired.”
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