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Graham Ivan Clark, a teenager behind the unprecedented Twitter hack of July last year that compromised high-profile accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, among others, has been sent to three years in prison as part of his plea deal.
According to The Tampa Bay Times, the teenager took control of celebrity accounts and used them to gain more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
“In a deal with prosecutors, Clark agreed to serve three years in prison, followed by three years probation,” the report said on Tuesday.
Clark was 17 when he was accused of masterminding the Twitter hack.
Graham Ivan Clark was 17 years old when he was accused of the attack that took over Twitter accounts of President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Uber, and other high-profile accounts to distribute a Bitcoin scam.
Tweets posted from the hijacked accounts urged viewers to send Bitcoin to a specific address, with a promise it would be returned doubled if they sent the virtual currency within 30 minutes or an hour. The tweets generated more than $100,000 before Twitter took them down.
It later came to light that the attackers used a phone spear-phishing attack against Twitter employees, whose credentials they used to tweet from these accounts, access direct messages, and download data.
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