Dutch Hacker Says He Logged Into President Trump's Twitter Account (volkskrant.nl) 99
An anonymous reader shares a report: The researcher, Victor Gevers, had access to Trump's personal messages, could post tweets in his name and change his profile. Gevers took screenshots when he had access to Trump's account. These screenshots were shared with de Volkskrant by the monthly opinion magazine Vrij Nederland. Dutch security experts find Gevers' claim credible. The Dutchman alerted Trump and American government services to the security leak. After a few days, he was contacted by the American Secret Service in the Netherlands. This agency is also responsible for the security of the American President and took the report seriously, as evidenced by correspondence seen by de Volkskrant. Meanwhile Trump's account has been made more secure. This is not the first time that Dutch hackers succeeded in taking over Donald Trump's Twitter account. The first time was four years ago, just before the 2016 elections, when three hackers jointly managed to retrieve Trump's password and access his account. That someone has now succeeded again, is remarkable. During the previous presidential elections Russian hackers attempted to influence the elections on a large scale. Subsequently, social media have taken various steps to prevent manipulation. The password was "maga2020!"
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Between the two of you, I'm pretty convinced Biden's not the one high on crack.
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Don't be silly. He'd order proton torpedoes.
And to empty all the laesser banks and invert the defector shield.
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Don't be silly. He'd order proton torpedoes. And to empty all the laesser banks and invert the defector shield.
Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.
That's the way we do things, lad, we're making shit up as we wish.
The Russians and the Dutch they don't pose no threat to us
Because if we find we're in a bind we just make some shit up.
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Don't be silly, He'd Tweet is out as crouton tomatoes.
And his idiocy in this regard is probably the only thing saving us from global annihilation.
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They had to abort after the satellite targetting system focused in on Greenwich Village when the AI decided to auto-correct dikes.
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Where do I sign up?
Re:In unrelated news... (Score:5, Funny)
This just in: Bombed Deutschland instead.
Re: In unrelated news... (Score:2)
Actually, Italy would be glassed. Check the geography advice to the president at 4:44 in this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com]
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He'll end up bombing New Amsterdam
Re: In unrelated news... (Score:3)
Maybe the dutch guy lives in Haarlem and that's in old Amsterdam, see...the president will not make such obvious mistake!
Oh, wait!
Damn, the fate of New York hangs on a double 'a'!
Well, at least it wasn't MAGA2024! (Score:3)
Re:Well, at least it wasn't MAGA2024! (Score:4, Funny)
Biden's passord is yelling down the hall :
"Hon, will you log me in again?"
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What's being fair about saying something that's not true?
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He is being paid a fair amount to say it?
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You mean we might have a President who goes through the channels appropriate for their office and station, rather than tapping out a quick retort and smashing the Send button on Twitter? I don't see the problem here...
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Well, to be fair...
Biden's passord is yelling down the hall :
"Hon, will you log me in again?"
Heh. They're both senior citizens, and I think most if not all of us have seniors we care about in our lives.
It's just politics and fun and games, fair play, but they both are... the next president will be, and so there isn't anything separating a pot shot at a public figure from making fun of the elderly. I supposed all elderly politicians as a whole might be fair game in some way though...
Not that it's really any better to make fun of Trump's weight, hair, shaking, etc. or Biden's stutter or other condi
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Best password ever! Although, a two factor authentication would be required, such as him actually walking down the hall to give her a kiss.
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I believe the meme ended in Trump over 9000.
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Not entirely sure Trump will survive his second term. Given it's one of the most lethal jobs in the world (a bit less than 20% chance of dying by assassination or disease), and he's old and not exactly in top physical shape, well...
2024 hopefully will be people that learned with Trump that americans put being employed and not starving over literally everything else, and will be a "we will give you jobs with X" versus "we will give you jobs with Y".
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His luggage (Score:5, Informative)
Why the fuck isn't someone in his administration policing grandpa's internet usage? He clearly has the online sense of a nursing home resident. Ridiculous.
Hail skroob.
Re:His luggage (Score:4, Funny)
The last time this same guy hacked Trump's twitter the password was 'yourefired'.
So....yeah.
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Good job fuckstain.
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Oh come on, are you really going to dismiss Trump's actions as mistakes ? It's Art, it looks easy, but it takes real genius to reach that level of stupid, the man worked all his life to be the biggest flamboyant moron, and you just call that a mistake ? Such disrespect.
Re:His luggage (Score:4, Informative)
The alleged president didn't work at it. It came naturally due to having the attention span of a gnat. The trick is that there is nothing going on up there. His "political philosophy" is merely being the right place at the wrong time for the rest of us. He had a mind-numbingly bad opponent, he had managed to owe those nice Russians all that money they laundered through Deutsche Bank and Putin convinced them having a bozo for a U.S. president would be an ample return on their investment, and the Republican primary opponents were still repeating the defunct maxims of conservative ideology without realizing the R's in the public stopped believing that BS years before.
The alleged president of 4 years ago is the same as the alleged president of today. He's learned nothing because he is incapable of learning. He merely repeats what Fox tells him to repeat. He's doing the best he can, MAGA.
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Because you brought politics into a non-partisan discussion.
You are directly implying that if I'm a Trump supporter, I can't possibly see this as fucking idiotic; because in a post where I made absolutely *no* partisan comments, you seem to imply I'm in "a different tribe".
The only person here suffering from tribalism is you. Go catch yourself a squirrel so you can eat and give that brain a little more po
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I'm not angry, my friend.
I've just made a personal decision not to be cordial to you pond scum anymore.
You can't be educated. You're fucking unteachable.
Something is broken in your tiny little brains, and you have convinced yourselves that if you believe something hard enough, it will become true.
You see, I'm not a fucking Democrat. Not even fuck
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Try harder, pissant. I couldn't be more pleased with myself, because your response tells me you realize how transparent your partisan shitbaggery is
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Nice try, though. On the other hand, I am pretty sure you really do hunt squirrels.
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Come, let us reason together!
Whoops. Looked over your comments. Come, let us HATE together!
That's my new theory to explain Trump supporters. The slightly confusing aspect is that few of them want to admit who they hate and how much they hate them. Heck, for a lot of the women supporting Trump it must be some form of self-hatred that motivates them. I can understand paying the Black supporters, but women?
For a long time I had trouble understanding the appeal of Trumpism. It's not that I don't hate anyone, bu
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It's not that I don't hate anyone, but rather that I believe I have to try to do better and be better as a function of time.
And I hope that more people are like you, than are like me.
I'm not terribly interested in my own self improvement, but I am interested in improvement of the country that my nieces and nephews are growing up in.
As far as I'm concerned, these fucks are just a bunch of antebellum Dixiecrats that are too damn cowardly to come out and say what is painted on every fucking action they take: They're fucking white supremacists.
And the only way *I* can make this place better is by politically smashing these fascis
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Maybe more agreement than I perceived initially, but here's my latest (politely worded) categorization of the haters that love Trump: https://shanen.medium.com/what... [medium.com] (What secret unifies Trump's supporters?)
But a few vocabulary notes. Dixiecrats are extinct. They became Reagan Republicans, but now the Republican Party is extinct. The GOP became the Gang Of Trump and the whole gang needs to go away.
I sure hope Trump goes down hard and takes the GOT with him. So hard that there's no room for quibbling about
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Are you going to cry and call names like a 2nd grader ...
Nope, Trump has that covered. :-)
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Are you all the Trump campaign budget can stretch to? No wonder Trump is losing by a landslide!
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The point here is that powerful people need to not be careless. I suppose he must have retweeted the white power video unknowingly, carelessly, just as he used a weak password carelessly.
Well I don't want leaders - or let's be honest they are to some degree rulers - who are ca
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I don't see anything partisan in that at all.
retweeting videos of fucking white supremacists is fucking stupid, and if you are part of the class of people who finds that to be a political issue, I'm happy to say I hope you die.
Unchecked, these pond scum fuckers will raise another Reich. You can't sleep and pretend that fascists won't try to solidify their power.
I recall a time when hatred of fascist filth was just a fucking human value.
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A coworker thought it would be funny to sign me up for Trump campaign emails. I haven't unsubscribed because they're fucking hilarious. So on top of seeing that he'd be fucking awesome at selling Shamwows, I happen to be inundated with his campaign slogan quite frequently
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Do we really believe that's his password, though? I have to think that attempts to break into his twitter would be continuous. Nobody malicious guessed it before now? That seems unlikely if it's such a simple password.
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But read the article:
The claim is credible. [volkskrant.nl] These people don't seem to be political, didn't dump everything they found to smear a campaign, provided proof, etc.
He finds it equally humorous that he just stumbled onto it.
He was mostly shocked that Twitter didn't block him somehow after 4 failed attempts.
New password? (Score:3)
Is probably Trump2020, TrumpJr2024, or Ivanka2024 :-)
Re:New password? (Score:5, Funny)
He'll **NEVER** forget that one!
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It's going to be updated to 'Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV'.
He'll **NEVER** forget that one!
As long as they're still right in front of him, like I'm guessing they were when he made that up during the interview. I'm just thankful he can still differentiate those four things. Feel sorry for "person" though. :-)
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A good password should go deeper into his psyche. How about "I-hate-women-reporters"?
Or maybe a new campaign motto? How about "Come-let-us-hate-together"?
(Did Slashdot ever have a Golden Age of "Come, let us reason together"? Maybe that's just my deceptive memory?)
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It's going to be updated to 'Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV'.
He'll **NEVER** forget that one!
Except that he couldn't actually get the order right on the multiple times he repeated it for the cameras. So he might have trouble with it as a password. Also, I'm pretty sure twitter doesn't allow spaces in passwords.
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Dammit! (Score:5, Funny)
So 'StableGenius' no longer the password?
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Nope, it's covfefe.
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Yeah, you would expect 2FA for access to an account that could cause huge market swings, start a war, or make the world a better place by being deleted completely :-)
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I don't use twitter, hence I've had to research that.
From twitters own help page we can gather that you can turn such a nuisance, which will only slow down your login, off if you think you won't need it.
Maybe he turned it off.
His 2016 password was obvious, though (Score:3)
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That's hardly Dutch hacking genius to crack that...
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That's hardly Dutch hacking genius to crack that...
It's easy to remember because it's also the password to his luggage and the master nuclear launch code.
Re: His 2016 password was obvious, though (Score:1)
That nuclear lunch code history is way too scary...
Re: His 2016 password was obvious, though (Score:2)
The launch codes were all zeros in the silos, presumably, to minimize data entry errors during a critical time.
I hope they actually fixed this once that was publicly exposed.
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The "launch codes" were removed. They were added at the demand of someone high up in the government (I forget who) but didn't really add any security.
The security is physical - the keys, have to turn simultaneously, far apart that no one person can turn both, multiple bunkers have to also order the launch at the same time, and so on.
They literally have access to the nuclear weapon. A "launch code" isn't going to prevent them from doing something bad with it.
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The security is physical - the keys, have to turn simultaneously, far apart that no one person can turn both
Unless they have some string and something solid to slot over the keys and tie the string to. maybe a section of ruler with a slot cut in it, or a pen or something. Or any of dozens of other methods. Seriously, one person turning two physically distanced keys at the same time isn't exactly rocket science. I'll grant that it's just one safety interlock out of several. Kind of like the, I think six safety interlocks, that prevented that nuclear weapon they accidentally dropped on North Carolina from going off
The risk of damage is insane! (Score:5, Funny)
He could have faced the president's entire public presence!
You know: Faced. The opposite of defaced.
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Good question. Maybe he used a well hidden VPN exit node that was close enough to geographic location of the president and successfully emulated a web browser with relevant forged cookies?
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Wait for more evidence (Score:5, Informative)
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Twitter has said that they have no evidence to confirm the claim https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1319304659706605568 [twitter.com] and Twitter would at a minimum have access to IP addresses of anyone who logged on (but they might not want to say that it did happen for their own reasons). Without more evidence, I'm reserving judgment if this is true, even if it would be really hilarious if true.
I can't say one way or another is this hacker's claims are true, but do you really think that Twitter would publically admit that the twitter account of Trump was compromised?
They would Trumpet it :) (Score:3)
> I can't say one way or another is this hacker's claims are true, but do you really think that Twitter would publically admit that the twitter account of Trump was compromised?
Twitter doesn't mind helping Trump look bad. In fact they go out of their way to say he's an idiot or wrong or whatever. Not that I necessarily disagree.
Twitter was not hacked (Score:3)
... but do you really think that Twitter would publically admit that the twitter account of Trump was compromised?
If it were compromised as a result of Twitter being hacked, or a rogue employee or some other internal Twitter failure ... no.
... yes, as all the blame is on Trump's carelessness.
If it were comprised as a result of really stupid end user error, say a guessable password like "maga2020", combined with no two factor authentication
Twitter notorious for protecting Trump (Score:2)
... but they might not want to say that it did happen for their own reasons ....
Yeah, Twitter is notorious for its efforts to protect Trump and his reputation. ;-)
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I find it impossible to believe the story because there's no way Trump's account doesn't have additional levels of security on it, simply because it's Trump's account. There are probably IP range restrictions and VPN requirements that were set up between the White House staff and Twitter. Even if we assume Trump doesn't use 2FA, it seems highly unlikely that Trump's account just allows random logins. It's well known he mostly tweets from his phone, he doesn't need to constantly log back in, there's no reaso
Re: Wait for more evidence (Score:2)
Gee..the common bank card I use has such protection (deployed successfully on two occasions; the bank immediately blocked it and no damage was done), let alone this account!
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Obvious fake. He made te same unproven claim in 2016. All he needed to do was DM his own name from Trump's account to @nytimes and he would be golden.
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When you compromise someone's Twitter account... (Score:2)
... send a direct message from there to your Twitter account.
This will leave tracks that Twitter can confirm, and will do no other damage.
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Twitter has said that they have no evidence to confirm the claim https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1319304659706605568 [twitter.com] and Twitter would at a minimum have access to IP addresses of anyone who logged on (but they might not want to say that it did happen for their own reasons). Without more evidence, I'm reserving judgment if this is true, even if it would be really hilarious if true.
Yeah, reading a couple of articles and it sounds really fishy.
a) 2-Factor authentication is a bit of a no-brainier for a high profile account.... ok, bad example
b) Twitter would have the IP of anyone who logged into the account, and they don't have any reason to lie about it.
c) This is the first I heard of the supposed 2016 hack.
d) In both cases the "proof" was a screenshot, which is ridiculously easy for someone to fake. If you did it in 2016 and no one believed you because you had no proof wouldn't you g
Now it all makes sense (Score:2)
People couldn't understand all the nonsensical ramblings coming from that account. There were words, yes, but the sentences seemed to be written by a four year old.
Now we know why. It was this Dutch guy trying to write his own language.
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Well, if I use the autodetect of Google translate on 'covfefe' it suggests Czech, but offers no translation to any language.
The audio of the alleged pronunciation in Czech is confusing, at least to my ear...
His new password... (Score:2)
Security enhancements now in place... (Score:1)
The new more secure password is "Maga2020!" because everybody knows you need to have a capital letter in there.
Fake News (Score:2)
We all know this is fake news, because nobody gets hacked.
To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password
That's the stupidest combination (Score:2)
No damage done (Score:3)
The guy could post whatever he wants. No matter how crazy it is, nobody would even notice a change!
Something something luggage combination (Score:2)
That's actually very interesting. I always thought there was a special "famous people Twitter" and other similar services that had many-factor auth, huge password complexity restrictions, etc. I guess not. What's amazing is that this guy could have easily posted something crazy that moved the financial markets or set off a panic.
Anyone who knows -- how do social media giants typically handle famous people accounts? I imagine that almost all of them are controlled by a social media manager of some kind. Are
Probably Twitter-sanctioned (Score:1)
Then you let the "hacker" post terrible things against the Terms of Service.
The media has a field day with the posted stuff.
Twitter locks the account until after the election.
Twitter restores access to Trump.
You DUMMY! (Score:1)
Shame on you!
What is you posted something along the lines of:
"OK. I am tired of this job now. I am too close to getting caught. So, no need to vote for me again. It was fun while it lasted!
I just want to go shoot someone on 5th Ave, then go have a berger and a covfefe, and another hooker who's pussy I can grab."