Tweet
Teen Behind Twitter Hack Gets 3 Years In Jail
The Florida teenager who hacked several celebrity Twitter accounts last summer, including those of former President Barack Obama and Elon Musk, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
18 year old Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty to 30 counts of communications fraud and other crimes on Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times reported, after prosecutors said he racked up $117,000 in Bitcoin donations from Twitter followers whom he duped.
On July 15, Clark hacked a number of celebrity Twitter accounts as part of a cryptocurrency scam. In addition to Obama and Musk, other high-profile users hit by Clark include then-presidential nominee Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Jeff Bezos.
Once he was on a celebrity’s account, Clark asked their followers to send him Bitcoin payments with the promise they’d immediately have their money doubled and sent back to them. His tweets said the too-good-to-be-true deal — where users can send $1,000 worth of bitcoin and expect to get back $2,000 worth of bitcoin — would only be going on for about a half hour.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/...-in-plea-deal/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...165052936.html
18 year old Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty to 30 counts of communications fraud and other crimes on Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times reported, after prosecutors said he racked up $117,000 in Bitcoin donations from Twitter followers whom he duped.
On July 15, Clark hacked a number of celebrity Twitter accounts as part of a cryptocurrency scam. In addition to Obama and Musk, other high-profile users hit by Clark include then-presidential nominee Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Jeff Bezos.
Once he was on a celebrity’s account, Clark asked their followers to send him Bitcoin payments with the promise they’d immediately have their money doubled and sent back to them. His tweets said the too-good-to-be-true deal — where users can send $1,000 worth of bitcoin and expect to get back $2,000 worth of bitcoin — would only be going on for about a half hour.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/...-in-plea-deal/
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...165052936.html