Florida teen spends three years in prison for Twitter hack that hit Apple

A Florida teen accused of being the “ mastermind ” behind a July 2020 Twitter hack that hit Apple has agreed to a plea deal that will put him in jail for three years, the government said. Tampa Bay Times

Graham Ivan Clark, along with others, has compromised the Twitter accounts of 130 prominent companies and individuals to solicit Bitcoin, scamming people for over $ 100,000. Apple’s official account was opened, along with the accounts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former US President Barack Obama, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and President Joe Biden.

Clark will plead guilty to charges this week in exchange for three years in prison and three years on probation. Because Clark was only 17 at the time of the attack, he will be convicted as a “juvenile offender” and could be eligible to serve some of his time in a military boot camp.

Under the terms of the plea deal, Clark is not allowed to use computers without the permission and supervision of the police.

Twitter conducted an internal investigation after the breach and found that hackers attacked employees in a “phishing attack over the phone,” which led them to believe they were talking to other Twitter employees to access Twitter’s internal tools.

Mason “Chaewon” Sheppard from the UK and Nima “Rolex” Fazeli have also been charged with the attack and are facing jail time.