Security News > 2021 > July > Trump Hacker and Friends on a Mission to Fix the Internet
The bearded hacker declined to give his age, but he has been carrying out these "Responsible disclosures" for the best part of two decades.
Just before the 2016 US election swept Trump to power, Gevers and two friends decided to make sure the then-candidate wasn't using a password that had previously been leaked online.
A huge hack of LinkedIn revealed that the password "Yourefired" - Trump's catchphrase from his days on TV show The Apprentice - had been used for an account in his name on the business networking site.
After trying the same password on Twitter alongside several different email addresses, the Dutch hackers were horrified to see Trump's personal page load up before their eyes.
Fortunately for Gevers, they determined that he "Met the criteria that have been developed in case law to go free as an ethical hacker".
Fellow DIVD researcher Wietse Boonstra had spotted a major problem with Kaseya's software in April, and the ethical hackers had been frantically helping the company develop a fix.