Security News > 2021 > June > US House Rep on cyber committees tweets Gmail password, PIN in Capitol riot lawsuit outrage

US House Rep Mo Brooks seemingly revealed his Gmail password and a PIN in a Sunday rage tweet about a lawsuit regarding the January 6 insurrection attempt.

Brooks, who sits on the House's Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems subcommittee, and the Science, Space, and Technology committee, tweeted a photo from an iPad of his Windows computer, attached to which was a piece of paper with login credentials written on it.

Why was a congressman photographing his PC for social media over the weekend? Based on the number of capitalized words in the tweet, Brooks was rather peeved that he had been served legal papers by House Rep Eric Swalwell, who has sued Brooks, Donald Trump Jr, and Rudy Giuliani for allegedly helping to instigate the January storming of the Capitol.

Rep Brooks deleted the tweet featuring the credentials, and posted a second attempt - with the sensitive info cropped out - as seen below.

The password was visible from Brooks' Twitter profile for the better part of a day.

The Register asked Representative Brook's office for comment, and confirmation that the credentials are now useless.

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