As an ethical hacker, Gevers warns individuals or organizations about vulnerabilities in the hope of remedying them. Gevers contacted the American secret service to report this. “I thought ‘oh god’ when I logged in,” Gevers tells RTL News. “I just don’t want me to be able to get in, especially not with such an important account.”
What Gevers discovered? Trump used the password “maga2020!” (the often used abbreviation for Trump’s slogan Make America great again) and would not have put in place additional security, according to the Dutch channel.
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Gevers has already reported many thousands of data leaks and other vulnerabilities on the internet. It took him seven attempts to guess the password of the American president, he argues against Vrij Nederland.
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RTL Nieuws and Vrij Nederland were able to see evidence that Gevers had access to Trump’s Twitter. According to the hacker, Trump had not put in place additional security, such as two-step verification.
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It is not the first time that Gevers had access to Trump’s Twitter account. In 2016, he managed to gain access with two friends. Then the password was ‘yourefired’, which Gevers and his two hacker friends found among leaked LinkedIn passwords.
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