infoFlorida teenager arrested in Twitter hack of prominent accounts

Florida teenager arrested in Twitter hack of prominent accounts

The alleged 17-year-old mastermind behind the July 15 Twitter hack that compromised 130 accounts, including those of Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Elon Musk, was arrested Friday in Tampa, Fla..

Graham Ivan Clark, who recently graduated from high school, will face 30 felony charges in a scam that involved hacking those accounts, posting messages on their behalf and luring additional victims into sending him Bitcoin donations worth more than $100,000, authorities said. The charges include communications and organized fraud, fraudulent use of personal information and access to a computer without authority.

Clark will be charged as an adult under Florida law said Hillsborough District Attorney Andrew Warren. \u00e2\u0080\u009cHe [allegedly] gained access to Twitter accounts and to the internal controls of Twitter through compromising a Twitter employee.\u00e2\u0080\u009d

Warren declined to comment on whether others had participated in the attack.