The FBI, IRS and Florida law enforcement have arrested 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa.
Clark has already been charged 30 countshe will be tried as an adult. The investigation considers Clark's accomplices to be 22-year-old Nima Faselli, who lives in Florida, and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard from the UK.
According to preliminary data, it was Clarkgained access to Twitter's internal tools, and then committed a scam that led to the attack. In particular, he allegedly convinced a Twitter employee that he worked in the company's IT department, and tricked the employee into giving him credentials.
Twitter has revealed details of how the attack on the social network took place
Thus, the criminals gained access tointernal tools of the social network. Thanks to this, they were able to attack 130 Twitter accounts, posting messages on behalf of 45. In the case of 36 accounts, hackers opened personal correspondence and downloaded an archive with personal data from 7 people.
Let us recall that on July 15, hackers gained accessto the accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and others. On behalf of verified profiles, hackers published tweets about the distribution of several thousand bitcoins to those who send the cryptocurrency to the wallets specified in the tweets.
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