How I Logged Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account (Again)🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 88: Victor
Source: YouTube · Jack Rhysider · published Aug 10, 2023 · 42:29
In Part 3 of the Grumpy Old Hackers series, Victor (@0xDUDE) recounts discovering Donald Trump's Twitter lacked two-factor authentication before the 2020 election, successfully guessing the password, and facing a criminal investigation for his responsible disclosure 0:05.
Key Takeaways:
• Victor has filed over 5,789 responsible disclosures since 1998, founding the GDI Foundation and later chairing the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure 0:19
• Discovering Trump's Twitter had no 2FA, Victor guessed the password "maga2020!" from a rally WiFi credential and accessed the account for ten minutes to document the vulnerability 0:20
• After Trump claimed "nobody gets hacked," Victor went semi-public, triggering Secret Service contact and a Dutch criminal investigation that threatened his government job 0:30
• The Dutch prosecutor cleared Victor under the responsible disclosure exception, though he considers it unsuccessful since Trump never acknowledged the warning 0:40
Victor continues securing the internet and is launching DIVD Academy to teach young adults IT security skills.
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JACK: Real quick before we get started, this
is like Part 2 or actually it’s Part 3 of a series. We’re talking with Victor in this episode
who’s part of the Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers. To learn who they are, you need to check out
the episode before this. In fact, I’m gonna reference the last episode
quite a bit in this episode but to understand what happened in the last episode, you really
should listen to the episode before that. So yeah, this is a three-parter which is intended
for you to listen to Episode 86 first, called LinkedIn, then Episode 87, and now this one,
Episode 88. Alright, let’s do this. (INTRO): [INTRO MUSIC] These are true stories
from the dark side of the internet. I’m Jack Rhysider. This is Darknet Diaries. [INTRO MUSIC ENDS] JACK: So, we’re picking back up with o…