17 yrs old and two others were arrested behind the biggest twitter hack

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Prosecutors in the U.S have charged 3 people for their role in hacking twitter accounts of several celebrities and high profile twitter account for using their account people out of money in the name of a Cryptocurrency scam.


The U.S has filled criminal charges a suspected 17-year-old boy from Florida the prosecutor alleges that the teenage Graham Evan Clarke from Tampa is the mastermind of this twitter hack.


The authorities also said that the teenager was responsible for duping people and taking more than $100 thousand in the guise of cryptocurrency scheme, in addition, the federal prosecutors have also filed a case two other people 19yeard old Mason sheperd from Britain and 22 years old Nima fazeli from Florida with wire fraud, money laundering and hacking charges.

"but make no mistake this was not an ordinary 17yrs old kid, this was a highly sophisticated attack on a magnitude not seen before, it cloud have been an extremely high amount of loss the fact that it was just over a $100 thousand in one is because it was caught pretty quickly "

Expert in the agency probing the incident claim that the on the twitter profiles were a combination of technical breaches and social engineering that allow hackers to take over the accounts of several politicians, musicians, actors and other celebrities.

The target of the hack were famous people such as Microsoft founder bill gate, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon Ceo Jeff Bezos, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and even formal U.S president Barrack Obama.

To recap: 
🔹130 total accounts targeted by attackers
🔹45 accounts had Tweets sent by attackers
🔹36 accounts had the DM inbox accessed
🔹8 accounts had an archive of “Your Twitter Data” downloaded, none of these are Verified

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 23, 2020

In response to the hacking microblogging and social media, giant twitter has that the attack resulted from a phone spear phishing that enables hackers to take control of the twitter accounts. The hackers targeted a total of 130 twitter accounts managed to tweet using 45 accounts, access the inbox of 36 accounts and downloaded data from at least 7 accounts. 

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17 yrs old?how authority traced them,young hacker with full of knowledge trap into the hand of authorities,maybe this would operate a year ago..this kind of hacker is hard to caught,

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The hacking phenomenon had that many accounts hacked??? Didn't know it got this bad

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This is saddening. Youths should use their intelligence in other things rather than hacking.

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I bet you should tell them that , all youth of nowadays are agreed and what to make money fast than their parents

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I read this the other day on cryptopanic. I don’t think he will be alone in this and I am sure he will give them many other names

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he is not alone two people were also involved : Mason sheperd 19 yrs and Nima fazeli 22yrs

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Yeah that is what I also thought. It has a big hack no way someone can do it alone. Anyways atleast they got caught

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Big SHAME on them!

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Good one

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How did the authorities traced them?

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it hasn't been disclosed yet

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Thank you for the information

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