Graham Ivan Clark, 18, was sentenced to prison for Twitter hack
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U.S.
A adolescent of Florida accused of planning a computer attack to celebrity Twitter accounts, and then scam the followers of these asking them for cryptocurrencies, he was sentenced to three years in a juvenile prison after an agreement with the prosecution, authorities reported.
The prosecution of Florida announced the settlement Tuesday in the case of 18-year-old Graham Ivan Clark, described as the mastermind of the hack July 2020 Bit-Con worldwide from the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, among others.
The county state attorney Hillsborough, Andrew Warren, said Clark, who was 17 when he was charged, would spend three years in juvenile prison followed by three years of probation, the maximum allowed by Florida’s Juvenile Offenders Act.
And Clark violates the terms of his freedom conditional, you can face a minimum sentence of 10 years in an adult prison.
The cyber attack, which resulted in federal charges against three other people, consisted of taking control of the accounts of these celebrities and asking their thousands or millions of followers to send bitcoins to a certain account, promising to double their money.
He hijacked the accounts of famous people, but the money he stole came from normal, working people, “Warren said.
Graham Clark must be held accountable for this crime and other potential scammers must see that there are consequences. “
Warren He added that the “objective, with respect to any child, whenever possible, is for him to learn the lesson without having his future destroyed” and therefore offers an opportunity for rehabilitation.
The case was investigated by federal authorities, but Clark was delivered to those of the state of Florida because he was a minor at the time.
According to the prosecution, Clark used his access to Twitter’s internal systems to hijack the accounts of various companies and celebrities in a scheme that led to the theft of about $ 100,000.
The computer attack affected at least 130 accounts, including that of Biden when he was a candidate for president.
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