Another controversial statement was made by United States President Donald Trump during a campaign event on the 19th of the month.
Trump's comment was referring to C-SPAN political editor Steve Scully , who admitted to lying about his Twitter account being hacked .
In a tweet, Trump declared that no one can be hacked:
However, as security experts say, the President's statement is not at all valid.
Even Trump himself has been a victim of hacking. The chain of hotels owned by the US president was breached twice. The first time between 2014 and 2015 and the second time between 2016 and 2017. After each security breach, Trump hotels were forced to file a notification with government regulators.
However, these reports reveal an interesting trend: each data breach resulted in the theft of credit card information. And in the second breach in particular, data and other sensitive information, such as visitor names, email , and phone numbers.
Trump Hotels did, however, charge the breach to Sabre, a third-party credit card processing company, but it is unclear how many people in total were affected by the two data breaches.
These data breaches clearly demonstrate that not only is it not difficult to hack someone, but it is also dangerous.
The truth is that users are increasingly exposed to risks in the digital world, as they can be easily tricked by malicious actors. For example, hackers could impersonate an employee of a well-known company in order to convince a user to give them personal information and passwords or trick them into downloading a link containing malicious software. Users should be vigilant and not easily trust emails or messages they receive from people they don't expect. They should also be very careful with the links and attachments that these emails may contain, as they can lead to malicious sites.
