How easy was it to "hack" Trump's Twitter account? Ridiculously easy. No two-step verification. No other security measures. The hacker, a security analyst, simply guessed. And after a few hours of poking around and taking screenshots as proof, Gevers alerted U.S. authorities to the stunningly lax security taken by Trump. Source: Volkrant.NL Last week a Dutch security researcher succeeded in logging into the Twitter account of the American President Donald Trump.