Donald Trump Jr might not have simply inherited his well-known father’s identify. 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 an excellent dafter identify 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 can be working for president in 2024.”

An extra collection of tweets had been posted by the prankster, together with one which learn “F*** Biden” – which, frankly, may properly 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 powerful, distinctive password? Did he have multi-factor authentication enabled? Was he phished? Had Trump Jr shared his password with anyone else (corresponding to a social media intern who went spectacularly rogue).

For now, we don’t know the solutions to those questions.

We do, nevertheless, 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 corresponding to “yourefired” and “MAGA2020!”.

Sheesh.

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