(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.
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