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This might actually fall under the humor category as I thought it was from a parody site when I first read this, but so far I've found dozens of references to this story on the net...

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It appears that someone in the Netherlands successfully 'hacked' Trump's Tweeter account by simply guessing his password. Now the individual claims that he did nothing while he was in the account, just got in to prove that he could but he did do some screen grabs as evidence and to document what he had done. He apparently then informed the White House about what he had done so that they could change the password. The part that led me to thinking that this was a joke was that the password that Trump had apparently been using was 'maga2020'.

Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account

Last week a Dutch security researcher succeeded in logging into the Twitter account of the American President Donald Trump. Trump, an active Twitterer with 87 million followers, had an extremely weak and easy to guess password and had according to the researcher, not applied two-step verification.

http://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/dutch-ethical-hacker-logs-into-trump-s-twitter-account~badaa815/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fdonald-trump-twitter-password-china-vulnerabilities-among-us-security-news%2F




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