{"id":4560,"date":"2021-02-28T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2021-02-28T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:01:22","slug":"dutch-prosecutors-say-trumps-twitter-account-was-hacked-by-guessing-his-password-maga2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4560","title":{"rendered":"Dutch prosecutors say Trump\u2019s Twitter account was hacked by guessing his password: maga2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Dutch media reported that in October, a hacker got into Trump\u2019s Twitter account by guessing his password. And, I kid you not, the password was \u201cmaga2020!\u201d \u2014 because of course it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55337192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insistence from the White House and Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;that there was no evidence of a hack, public&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/16\/trumps-twitter-account-was-hacked-dutch-ministry-affirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prosecutors in the Netherlands<\/a>&nbsp;confirmed details of an intrusion..The hacker, 44-year-old&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xdude?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Victor Gevers<\/a>, was facing potential jail time for accessing the president\u2019s infamous social media account. But prosecutors said Gevers had acted in an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55337192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ethical<\/a>\u201d way by immediately disclosing what he had done to Dutch authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/12\/16\/22179065\/trump-twitter-password-maga2020-dutch-gevers\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/12\/16\/22179065\/trump-twitter-password-maga2020-dutch-gevers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dutch media reported that in October, a hacker got into Trump\u2019s Twitter account by guessing his password. And, I kid you not, the password was \u201cmaga2020!\u201d \u2014 because of course it was.<\/p>\n<p>Despite insistence from the White House and Twitter that there was no evidence of a hack, public prosecutors in the Netherlands confirmed details of an intrusion..The hacker, 44-year-old Victor Gevers, was facing potential jail time for accessing the president\u2019s infamous social media account. But prosecutors said Gevers had acted in an \u201cethical\u201d way by immediately disclosing what he had done to Dutch authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[456,457],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hacking","tag-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}