(Reuters) A Dutch politician whose “verified” Twitter account was among those taken over by hackers this month told Reuters on Thursday the company believes his private messages had been accessed, potentially exposing dissidents in other countries.
Lawmaker Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islam Freedom Party is the second largest in [the] Dutch parliament, lives under police protection because of death threats. He said in an email that he rarely sent private messages via Twitter but that he had received many over the course of years from supporters in countries including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
“My Twitter account was not only hacked for some days and the hacker also posted tweets on my account and sent direct messages in my name, but indeed got full access to my DMs, which of course is unacceptable in many ways,” he said.
