He hacked Donald Trump’s Twitter account but no …

“Maga2020!”. That was the password for United States President Donald Trump’s Twitter user until October of this year, according to the hack by Dutchman Victor Gevers. The news was broadcast in the Dutch media with the captures he made of the president’s account with 87 million followers, but the Dutch prosecution decided not to press charges against him because he considered Gevers’ conduct positions her as an “ethical hacker”.

“This is the conclusion of the prosecution after an investigation carried out by the high-tech criminal team of the national police,” the Dutch prosecution said today in a statement in which they add that Gevers, 44, complied “the criteria developed by case law” which make him “an ethical hacker”.

The prosecution explained that it was a security researcher and after entering the @realDonaldTrump account, of which he only took screenshots without entering any confidential messages or files from the then Republican candidate, tried to contact the North American authorities.

However, the White House and Twitter have denied reports that the US president’s account was in fact compromised. “This is not absolutely true, but we do not comment on the security procedures on the president’s social media accounts,” said Judd Deere, deputy White House press secretary. In the social network of the little bird, they stressed that they had not found “evidence to corroborate this claim.

Maga o “Make America Great Again”

“The first thing I thought about when I logged in was, ‘OMG!’ It was as if I didn’t want to have been able to access, especially not such an important account, ”explained Gevers to the Dutch platform NV, which published the screenshots taken when accessing the president’s account.

The password cracked by the “ethical hacker” was “maga2020!”, Which comes from the acronym of Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”. This is not the first time that the Dutch hacker has accessed the account of the American president. In October 2016, he and several friends found Trump’s password in a database leaked by hackers. “Youarefired” was the password, which means “you are fired” in English.

“In the Netherlands, piracy is the subject of criminal proceedings”, recalled the prosecution, but insisted that the Gevers case contains “special circumstances” which do not apply to criminal proceedings .

Another Gevers discovery was a Chinese database containing personal information and locations (with GPS coordinates) of 2.7 million residents of Xinjang, the Asian giant’s largest province. The hack revealed how the Chinese government accumulates personal information about its residents.