Security News > 2020 > October > After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'

Donald Trump's Twitter password was easily guessed, and he still isn't using multi-factor authentication, claims a Dutch hacker who on Thursday bragged he broke into the President's account last week.

Twitter was having none of it, though: the password guessing nor the link posting.

The social media biz pointed to the mechanisms it had put in place to protect high-value accounts like Trump's, such as the requirement of a strong 10-character-minimum password and the detection and thwarting of suspicious activity.

In what must have been more than a mild state of panic, Gevers and his friends, we're told, tried to tell someone, anyone, about the glaring security problem, from administration officials to Twitter itself: "We tried Team Trump, his son, the White House, Twitter security, etc. And also tried to reach him directly via Twitter," Gevers claimed.

Gevers told Vrij Nederland journalist Gerard Janssen: "Getting access to someone's Twitter account comes with much more risks than before: you can do more than just recommend Bitcoins and rearrange an account. All of the account interactions are logged and saved."

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/trump_twitter_account_no_mfa/