At least his password isn’t “password123”?
Gov. David Ige knew within two minutes that Hawaiians had mistakenly received a ballistic missile alert on the morning of Jan. 13 — but it took another 17 minutes to issue a correction because he forgot his Twitter password.
“I have to confess that I don’t know my Twitter account log-ons and the passwords, so certainly that’s one of the changes that I’ve made,” Ige told reporters on Tuesday.
He said he’s since saved the information on his phone so he can access social media without the help of his staff.
Hawaiians spent a nerve-wracking 38 minutes preparing for a nuclear fallout after the state’s emergency management agency issued a false alarm at 8:07 a.m.
Ige’s office relayed an emergency management agency tweet about the false alarm at 8:24 a.m. Six minutes later, a notice went up on his Facebook page.
A corrected alert was not sent out to cell phones until 8:45 a.m. because state workers had no prepared message for a false alarm.
The employee who sent out the false alarm has been reassigned, and the executive officer of Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency is planning to retire by year’s end.
Toby Clairmont, who told the Associated Press his retirement has been two years in the making, said his decision has nothing to do with the bungled alert.
With News Wire Services
