Teen Twitter hacker Graham Evan Clarke has pleaded guilty to last summer’s unprecedented bitcoin scam attack in which dozens of high-profile accounts were taken over the social network, according to a paper filed Tuesday in a Florida court. Clark, who is accused of leading the scam, will spend three years in prison as part of his plea deal. This Tampa Bay Times News report earlier today.
Clark has been given 229 days to surrender since his arrest last summer. As part of the deal, Clark is also being sentenced as a “young offender” who reduced his prison term and opened up the possibility that he could serve some of his sentence in a boot camp. Tampa Bay Times. Clark will also be banned from using the computer without permission and without oversight of law enforcement.
The hack occurred on July 15, 2020, and quickly became one of the most prolific cybersecurity events in Twitter’s history, as accounts of high profile users such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and J.B. Clark, the successor to the Wikipedia scam, was accepting more than $ 100,000 in cryptocurrency.
How Clark pulled the hack, which he did with two other collaborators he met on the username online username-selling platform known as Ogusers, has been the subject of numerous reports detailing the use of the group’s internal Twitter tools. Those tools, which can be used to reset account email addresses, can give Clark and his associates control of the accounts and send public tweets to Bitcoin.
Shortly after the hack, Clark was arrested from his home in Hillsboro, Florida. Clark’s partners, Orlando’s Neema Fazeli and the UK’s Mason Sheppard, were also charged with federal offenses.
