Security News > 2020 > December > Dutch officials say Donald Trump really did protect his Twitter account with MAGA2020! password

Gevers shared screenshots of the user-side of the account with the Dutch press to prove he had gained access and may have used the account access to tweet a link to a satirical website as the President.

Skeptical it would have been that easy to get into such an influential and safeguarded Twitter account with 88 million followers, everyone refused to accept it had happened.

"We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government."

"He later stated to police that he had investigated the strength of the password because there were major interests involved if this Twitter account could be taken over so shortly before the presidential election."

Even with the events independently confirmed, there has still been no response from the White House over its security practices, nor from Twitter which must be wondering how it wasn't even able to tell that its most public account has been wrongly accessed, even when it was told how and when it happened.

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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/12/17/trump_twitter_hacking/