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Christiaan Triebert Profile picture
Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc
Visual Investigations at @nytimes. Previously with @Bellingcat, @Airwars. DMs open.

Sep 28, 2020, 5 tweets

Interesting insight here by @gerardusjanssen on how three Dutch hackers seemingly gained access to @realDonaldTrump's Twitter account in 2016. His password at the time? “yourefired” — the same he used on LinkedIn. vn.nl/timeline-trump…

The same password he *allegedly* used for LinkedIn, I should say. The Dutch hackers informed @ncsc_nl, which in turn alerted @USCERT_gov which acted upon the information — per @gerardusjanssen's reporting. vn.nl/timeline-trump…

^ There hasn't been an official confirmation that the Dutch hackers gained access to his account, nor that this was really his password. Circumstancial evidence is that aides reportedly changed his password days after @ncsc_nl heard back from @USCERT_gov.

The big caveat: all of these screenshots could have been faked, of course. Then again, his aides reportedly did change his password days after.

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