Twitter security is a myth

April 5, 2026. We are exactly two weeks out from WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas, a time when every wrestling writer, fan, and performer should be focused on the main event card. Instead, we are looking at Brian Gewirtz, the man who spent years crafting the dialogue that defined an entire generation of WWE programming, tweeting out bizarre crypto nonsense.

His account started shilling some undisclosed crypto scheme alongside a claim about a shiny new BMW X7. Anyone who has followed professional wrestling online for more than a day knows exactly what this means. It isn’t a career pivot to the blockchain; it is a textbook case of a compromised account.

The anatomy of a social media disaster

We have reached a point where high-profile figures are essentially walking targets for the most amateurish phishing attacks imaginable. As Ringside News reported, the crypto links began appearing with the kind of regularity that sets off every alarm bell in a security analyst’s brain. It is the digital equivalent of seeing a wrestler try to cut a live promo while stumbling over their own feet and forgetting their opponent’s name.

The issue here is the lack of two-factor authentication on these massive accounts. You would think the person who scripted Rock-Cena or the Bloodline saga could figure out how to lock down a Twitter profile. Instead, the internet spent the morning watching a legend’s megaphone get hijacked by a bot that clearly hasn’t updated its scam scripts since 2021.

Missing the point of the job

Let’s be real about the optics, though. When someone as seasoned as Gewirtz gets hacked, it makes every other veteran look like a dinosaur. Wrestling has enough trouble convincing corporate sponsors that it is a serious business. When the people behind the curtain are tweeting about trading digital funny money for luxury vehicles, it makes the whole industry look like a joke.

Maybe this is the wake-up call for the entire backstage rot. We have high-stakes creative decisions being made for the biggest financial quarter in WWE history, yet we cannot keep a password secure. It is legitimately embarrassing that these accounts are left hanging in the wind like an un-tapped vertical suplex during a botched opening match.

The fallout for WrestleMania 41

With WrestleMania 41 hitting Las Vegas on April 19, 2026, the timing could not be worse for this kind of distraction. People were waiting for updates on the Undisputed Championship build or who is actually going to headline Night 2. Instead, we are crowdsourcing whether Brian knows how to reset his login credentials.

It is a reminder that the digital footprint of the wrestling world is flimsy. If an account with the history and reach of Gewirtz’s can be hollowed out this fast, what does that say about the security of current active wrestlers who are living on their phones? Fix the security or get off the grid, because watching this circus play out on a Sunday morning is a rough way to start the countdown to the biggest show of the year.