This article is reproduced from IT House. According to the “Tampa Bay Times” report, a Florida teenager accused of being the “mastermind” of the Twitter hacking incident in July 2020 has agreed to one item. Plea agreement, he will spend three years in prison.
The teenager was named Graham Ivan Clark. Together with others, he hacked into the Twitter accounts of 130 well-known companies and individuals to defraud Bitcoin and defrauded more than $100,000. The accounts of Apple, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former US President Barack Obama, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and US President Joe Biden have all been hacked.
Clark will plead guilty to the state government's charges this week and will be sentenced to three years in prison and three years of probation. Since Clark was only 17 years old at the time of the incident, he will be sentenced as a "juvenile offender" and may be eligible to serve some time in a military-style boot camp.
IT Home understands that according to the terms of the plea agreement, Clark is not allowed to use computers without the permission and supervision of law enforcement agencies.
Twitter conducted an internal investigation after the vulnerability incident, and found that the hacker targeted a "phone phishing attack" to trick employees into thinking they were talking to other Twitter employees in order to obtain Twitter's internal tools.
Mason "Chaewon" Sheppard and Nima "Rolex" Fazeli from the United Kingdom were also charged in the attack and will face imprisonment.