San Francisco: Graham Ivan Clark, a youngster behind the unprecedented Twitter hack of July final yr that compromised high-profile accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, amongst others, has been despatched to 3 years in jail as half of his plea deal.
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“In a deal with prosecutors, Clark agreed to serve three years in prison, followed by three years probation,” the report mentioned on Tuesday.
Clark was 17 when he was accused of masterminding the Twitter hack.
The settlement has allowed Clark, now 18, to be sentenced as a “youthful offender,” avoiding a minimal 10-year sentence that might have adopted if he’d been convicted as an grownup.
“Graham Clark needs to be held accountable for that crime, and other potential scammers out there need to see the consequences,” Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren mentioned in a press release.
“In this case, we’ve been able to deliver those consequences while recognizing that our goal with any child, whenever possible, is to have them learn their lesson without destroying their future.”
Authorities mentioned the rip-off netted about $117,000 in Bitcoin earlier than it was shut down.
Twitter later revealed extra particulars within the huge crypto hack, saying the hackers accessed the DM (direct message) inbox of as much as 36 of the 130 focused customers, together with one elected official within the Netherlands.
In whole, 130 accounts had been focused by attackers, 45 accounts had Tweets despatched by attackers, 36 accounts had the DM inbox accessed and eight accounts had an archive of “Your Twitter Data” downloaded (none of these was verified), knowledgeable Twitter.
