Last night, the official White House website experienced an unexpected incident when a live stream from a financial content creator on YouTube appeared instead of the usual presidential content.
The surprise occurred on the official video page, which is normally reserved for broadcasting speeches and events of the American president live.
The owner of the broadcast, named "MattMoney" on YouTube, presents himself as a "patron of individual investors" and an "engineer passionate about providing energy to the world," with about 18,100 subscribers on his channel.
A shocking moment live on air
Matt Farley, the real name of the channel owner, was conducting a regular weekly session answering his followers' queries about investment and personal finance, unaware that his broadcast had shifted to the official White House front page in front of millions of potential visitors.
Farley said in a statement to the Associated Press, "I had no idea what happened," adding sarcastically, "If I had known my broadcast would spread this widely, I would have dressed more smartly and chosen more significant topics, and certainly wouldn’t have discussed personal finance."
Urgent investigations and widespread ridicule
The White House issued a brief statement affirming that it was "aware of the incident and is examining what happened," while the nature of the incident remains unclear at this moment, as there is no definitive answer on whether it was a casual technical glitch, a deliberate act, or an actual cyber breach.
On the other hand, sarcastic comments quickly spread on the platform "X," where one user commented that the channel owner wanted to boost viewership, which led him to record a "minor" security breach.
Farley faced accusations of being responsible for the potential breach, which led him to respond via a tweet stating: "I can't even hack a paper bag, Matt Money didn’t breach anything."
Previous breaches
This incident is a new chapter in a series of digital security breaches faced by the Trump administration, where federal officials opened an investigation in May after prominent individuals and elected officials received text messages and calls from a person impersonating Suzie Wiles, the chief of staff to the president.
Last year, Iranian entities breached Trump's campaign and successfully stole sensitive internal documents and published them. The stolen documents included a detailed file about Vice President JD Vance prepared before he was chosen as Trump's electoral partner.
