Three people have been charged for Twitter’s huge hack.
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This is the alleged ringleader of the
twitter hacking two weeks ago
the 17 year old Graham Clark is from tampa in florida
he faces 30 charges including computer intrusion, fraud, money laundering and identity
theft he's one of three young men
accused of hacking the accounts of
famous people
and scamming their followers into
sending digital money.
Andrew Warren (Hillsborough state attorney) "He gained access to twitter accounts
into the internal controls of twitter through
compromising
a twitter employee. He sold access to
those accounts, he then used the identities of prominent
people to solicit money in the form of
bitcoin
promising in return that he would send
back twice as much bitcoin
he then collected and of course never
gave back the bitcoin that he received
from the victims."
Police say the highly
sophisticated cyber attack targeted 130
twitter accounts
among them u.s presidential candidate Joe Biden, former u.s president Barack Obama, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk
and billionaire Bill Gates the suspects
are accused of taking over their
accounts and posting charitable messages
asking for money, they received hundreds of cryptocurrency
transfers into a bitcoin account
worth around a hundred thousand dollars
police say they stopped the scam before
more money was stolen.
U.S justice department identified the
other two suspects by accessing their
online chats and bitcoin transactions, 22 year old Nima Fazeli in Orlando also known
online as Rolex from the U.S state of
florida
a 19 year old Mason Shepherd nicknamed
chai won
from the UK, court papers suggest they
were lured in by the ringleader with the
promise of highly prized short twitter
usernames known as OG handles they are all facing either
federal or state criminal charges
including computer intrusion, fraud, money
laundering, wire fraud and identity theft twitter
says the hackers were able to access the
private messages of 36 of 130 hacked
accounts including one for an elected
official in the Netherlands
but after one of the most high-profile
online security breaches in recent years
twitter says its fast-tracking security
improvements prevent further scams
targeting both employees and users.
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