Twitter disputes claim that Donald Trump’s account hacked by researcher who guessed his ‘maga2020!’ password

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 10, 2019, the Twitter logo is seen on a phone in this photo illustration in Washington, DC. - The suspected teenage mastermind of a huge Twitter hack pled not guilty August 4, 2020 to allegations he hijacked celebrity accounts to swindle people out of more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scheme. According to a report by Netherlands-based RTL News, Victor Gevers, a security researcher who chairs the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, successfully accessed Trump’s Twitter account on Oct 16. — AFP

LOS ANGELES: Twitter is disputing the account of a security researcher in the Netherlands who claimed he accessed US President Trump’s Twitter account – simply by guessing that the password was “maga2020!”

“We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement to Variety.