Social Media Blog: Twitter Hacker Gets Into President Obama’s Account Too

Well, even the President of the United States is not safe from hackers. Yep, read today that the Prez’s Twitter account was hacked into by a young Frenchman who was arrested in France for “allegedly” hacking into Twitter accounts of President Barack Obama and others.

And the worst part is that he was able to do so by simply “guessing” the passwords. Uh, Secret Service high-tech geniuses like the ones you see on the popular TV show 24 are obviously not for real. Otherwise you’d think they’d have a Twitter password that’s tough to guess or break.

Apparently the so called hacker was just trying to prove he could.

Just a word of caution to all of you out there who love to use simple passwords like “password”, “name1234”, and other very common passwords. Don’t!
 
Take the time to use a password that is not your name and birth date or name and social security number combination. AND, try to change it often, like once a month at least. It’s just embarrassing that our President’s Social Media managers didn’t follow what is simple, yet age-old advise “make passwords a bit complicated”…..You don’t have to make the same mistake.

 

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