Post by rubl on Sept 12, 2020 9:42:25 GMT 7
"Three middle-aged Dutch hackers slipped into Donald Trump's Twitter account days before 2016 US election
The Orange One was using a password breached four years previously
Three “grumpy old hackers” in the Netherlands managed to access Donald Trump’s Twitter account in 2016 by extracting his password from the 2012 Linkedin hack.
The pseudonymous, middle-aged chaps, named only as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor, told reporters they had lifted Trump’s particulars from a database that was being passed about hackers, and tried it on his account.
To their considerable surprise, the password – but not the email address associated with @realdonaldtrump – worked the first time they tried it, with Twitter’s login process confirming the password was correct.
The explosive allegations were made by Vrij Nederland (VN), a Dutch magazine founded during WWII as part of the Dutch resistance to Nazi German occupation."
www.theregister.com/2020/09/11/trump_twitter_account_recycled_password/
