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Law360 (March 16, 2021, 8:40 PM EDT) An 18-year-old Florida resident will spend three years in jail for a cyberattack last year that caused the Twitter accounts of high-profile users like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Kanye West to display a message about a cryptocurrency scam.
Graham Ivan Clark reached a plea agreement with Florida prosecutors that will see him spend three years in jail followed by three years probation, the Hillsborough State Attorney s Office said Tuesday. Clark was 17 at the time of the hack, and the total supervision time of six years is the maximum allowable amount under Florida s Youthful Offender Act,.
Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 20.39 EDT
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At least eight people were killed in a spate of shootings across three massage parlours in the Atlanta area yesterday. Six of those killed were Asian a two were white. A 21-year-old man was arrested following an hours-long manhunt and is reportedly the suspect in all three attacks.
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There is no known motive but NYPD’s counter-terrorism bureau announced that it would deploy officers to Asian communities around New York, and Atlanta police sent officers to check on similar businesses. The shootings come amid an increasing number of attacks against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Graham Ivan Clark (Photo: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office)
The Florida teen whom prosecutors call the mastermind behind last year s hack of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to wage a cryptocurrency scam pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to serve three years in a juvenile facility. Graham Ivan Clark , who is now 18, pleaded guilty to 30 felony charges stemming from a worldwide Twitter hack during which he gained access to celebrity Twitter accounts by tricking several Twitter employees into sharing needed admin credentials.
Clark used this access to post a tweet on 45 of the accounts asking for donations of $1,000 in bitcoin. The note said anyone sending the money would be sent $2,000 in return. This resulted in about $118,000 being stolen from 360 people, the state attorney s office in Tampa, Florida, says.