Data Breaches Security

“Yourefired” Donald Trump’s Twitter password

According to Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland (VN), in 2016 three ethical hackers known only as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor, scoured through the password database with the username of Donald Trump’s email address which had leaked out of LinkedIn a few years before. With the helpf of the program John the Ripper – a tool that hackers use to crack hashes – Mattijs retrieved the password in less than a second: yourefired. Trump had not changed his password after the 2013 ‘hack’.

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