Donald Trump Jr might not have simply inherited his well-known father’s title. He may additionally have inherited his unhealthy password safety.
The media is reporting that Donald J Trump Jr’s Twitter account (I refuse to name it “X”, as that’s a fair dafter title that “Elon Musk’s Enjoyable Palace”) posted a message claiming that his father, ex-president Donald J Trump, had died.
The tweet, which has since been deleted, learn:
“I’m unhappy to announce, my father Donald Trump has handed away. I shall be working for president in 2024.”
An additional collection of tweets have been posted by the prankster, together with one which learn “F*** Biden” – which, frankly, would possibly effectively have been a real tweet by Donald Trump Jr.
Clearly questions ought to be requested as to how this safety breach might have occurred. Was Donald J Trump Jr’s Twitter account protected with a robust, distinctive password? Did he have multi-factor authentication enabled? Was he phished? Had Trump Jr shared his password with anyone else (akin to a social media intern who went spectacularly rogue).
For now, we don’t know the solutions to those questions.
We do, nonetheless, know that the Trump dynasty has a historical past of selecting very poor passwords for its Twitter accounts. As an illustration, ex-president Trump himself was reported within the not-so-distant previous to have been utilizing passwords akin to “yourefired” and “MAGA2020!”.
Sheesh.
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