{"id":37089,"date":"2020-09-11T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31567\/Three-Middle-Aged-Dutch-Hackers-Slipped-Into-Donald-Trumps-Twitter-Account-Days-Before-The-2016-Election.html"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:00:27","slug":"three-middle-aged-dutch-hackers-slipped-into-donald-trumps-twitter-account-days-before-the-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/three-middle-aged-dutch-hackers-slipped-into-donald-trumps-twitter-account-days-before-the-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Middle-Aged Dutch Hackers Slipped Into Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter Account Days Before The 2016 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2017\/05\/09\/trump_shutterstock.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Three \u201cgrumpy old hackers\u201d in the Netherlands managed to access Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account in 2016 by extracting his password from the 2012 Linkedin hack.<\/p>\n<p>The pseudonymous, middle-aged chaps, named only as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor, told reporters they had lifted Trump\u2019s particulars from a database that was being passed about hackers, and tried it on his account.<\/p>\n<p>To their considerable surprise, the password \u2013 but not the email address associated with @realdonaldtrump \u2013 worked the first time they tried it, with Twitter\u2019s login process confirming the password was correct.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive allegations were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vn.nl\/hackers-twitter-trump\/?token=b3lvemtSUGhpL3Y3ckNtMnd1TjVJTHN4THJNenQ1UnBvV0xZM3p5SlNWMD0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made by <i>Vrij Nederland<\/i> (VN)<\/a>, a Dutch magazine founded during WWII as part of the Dutch resistance to Nazi German occupation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA digital treasure chest with 120 million usernames and hashes of passwords. It was the spoil of a 2012 digital break-in,\u201d wrote VN journalist Gerard Janssen, describing the LinkedIn database hack. After the networking website for suits was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2012\/06\/07\/linkedin_admits_data_breach\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hacked in 2012<\/a> by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/04\/28\/linkedin_dropbox_hacking_trial\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Russian miscreant<\/a>, the database found its way <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2016\/05\/24\/linkedin_password_leak_hack_crack\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">onto the public internet in 2016<\/a> when researchers eagerly pored over the hashes. Critically, the leaked database included 6.5 million hashed but unsalted passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Poring through the database, the trio found an entry for Trump as well as the hash for Trump\u2019s password: 07b8938319c267dcdb501665220204bbde87bf1d. Using John the Ripper, a hash-reversing tool, they were able to uncover one of the Orange One\u2019s login credentials. Some considerable searching revealed the correct email address (twitter@donaldjtrump.com \u2013 a different one from the one Trump used on LinkedIn and which was revealed in the hack)\u2026 only for the \u201cmiddle aged\u201d hackers to be defeated by Twitter detecting that the man who would become the 45th president of the United States had logged in earlier from New York.<\/p>\n<p>One open proxy server later, they were in.<\/p>\n<p>VN published screenshots supplied by the three showing a browser seemingly logged into Trump\u2019s Twitter account, displaying a tweet dating <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/791762650195632128\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from 27 October 2016<\/a> referring to a speech Trump delivered in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch hackers also alleged that they found Trump\u2019s details in a database hacked from Ashley Madison, a dating website aimed at cheating spouses. Amusingly, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2015\/08\/27\/ashley_madison_men\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just 1.4 per cent of its 31 million users were actual women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite trying to alert American authorities to just how insecure Trump\u2019s account was (no multi-factor authentication, recycled password from an earlier breach) the hackers\u2019 efforts got nowhere, until in desperation they tried Netherland\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.nl\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Cyber Security Centrum<\/a> \u2013 which acknowledged receipt of their prepared breach report, which the increasingly concerned men had prepared immediately once they realised their digital trail was not particularly well covered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, the grumpy old hackers must set a good example. And to do it properly with someone they &#8216;may not really like&#8217; they think this is a good example of a responsible disclosure, the unsolicited reporting of a security risk,\u201d concluded VN\u2019s Janssen.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey added: \u201cIt\u2019s password hygiene 101: use a different password for each account. And, if you know a password has been compromised in a previous breach (I think LinkedIn is well known) then for goodness sake, don\u2019t use that one. [<i>This is<\/i>] a textbook example of credential stuffing.\u201d \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/31567\/Three-Middle-Aged-Dutch-Hackers-Slipped-Into-Donald-Trumps-Twitter-Account-Days-Before-The-2016-Election.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[8917],"class_list":["post-37089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity-blogs","tag-headlinehackergovernmentusanetherlandssocialtwitter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Middle-Aged Dutch Hackers Slipped Into 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