No Criminal Charges for Accessing Trump's Twitter Account

Identity & Access Management , Security Operations Report: Dutch Police Say Security Researcher Acted Ethically Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • December 18, 2020     Dutch police will not press charges against a security researcher who claimed he gained access to U.S. President Donald Trump’s official Twitter account earlier this year by guessing the password. Police determined the researcher acted ethically by alerting authorities to the access and offering risk mitigation advice, according to a local news report.See Also: The 10 Essential Capabilities of a Best-of-Breed SOAR Victor Gevers, a security researcher at the GDI Foundation and chairman of the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, claimed in October that it took only five guesses before he hit on the password “maga2020!” to gain access to @RealDonaldTrump Twitter accounts. Gevers claimed that he had the ability to change the password and profile picture and could have downloaded Trump’s Twitter history, which would have included the direct messages associated with the account. And while news of the Trump account access prompted a police investigation, a representative of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Gevers acted ethically by attempting to contact numerous U.S. government agencies, including the FBI, Secret Service and CIA, to alert…
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