U.S. authorities have arrested a 17-year-old male in connection with the breach this month in which attackers seized control of high profile Twitter accounts as part of an apparent bitcoin scam. The State Attorney in Hillsborough, County, Florida announced Friday that Graham Ivan Clark “was the mastermind” of the July 15 Twitter breach. In that incident, hackers leveraged accounts belonging to former president Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Tesla founder Elon Musk and others in an attempt to convince millions of followers to send bitcoin to a particular. Twitter previously said attackers had targeted 130 accounts, tweeting from 45 of those, accessing the direct messages of 36 and downloading Twitter data from seven users. Clark was charged with 30 felonies, including 17 counts of communications fraud, ten counts of fraudulent use of personal information and one count of organized fraud. “This defendant lives here in Tampa, he committed the […]
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