A Twitteresque social media platform, GETTR, was hacked on Sunday shortly after it was launched, with its founder, Jason Miller, saying the invasion was brief and harmless.

Miller, who was a senior adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, said the issue has now been fixed. “The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” he told Reuters today.

Miller was one of the people who had his account taken over. He was joined by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, as well as Steve Bannon and other Trump aides and supporters. Their account names were changed, in some instances to “@JubaBaghdad was here :) ^^ free Palestine ^^.”

The platform already had 500,000 users soon after it was launched, people perhaps attracted to GETTR’s slogan that it is “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.” In Bannon’s words, the platform will be a “Twitter killer.”

As for Trump himself, he’s currently banned on Twitter, as he is on Facebook Inc. and Google LLC-owned YouTube. It seems there is little hope his accounts will be re-installed, although reports say he wasn’t the person funding GETTR, nor does he have an account.

Although Miller has said the problem has been “rectified,” the hacker told Business Insider today that he was able to scrape some data including the emails of some accounts while he had control. He added that his only reason for doing it was “for fun” and the fact it was “easy.” The hack apparently took all of 20 minutes to achieve.

“They should not publish the website before making sure everything, or at least almost everything, is secure,” he told Insider, explaining that he was a “bounty hunter” who looked for flaws in code and then asked companies for money in exchange for information about those flaws.

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