A Florida teenager who was accused of being the “brain” behind a July 2020 Twitter attack that affected Apple has agreed a deal that will see him spend three years in prison, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
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Graham Ivan Clark, along with others, pledged the Twitter accounts of 130 prominent companies and individuals to solicit Bitcoin, defrauding people of more than $ 100,000. It accessed Apple’s official account, as well as the accounts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk of former U.S. President Barack Obama, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates of Amazon’s CEO. Jeff Bezos, and President Joe Biden.
This week, Clark will plead guilty to state charges in exchange for three years in prison and three years probation. Because Clark was only 17 at the time of the attack, he will be sentenced as a “juvenile delinquent” and may be eligible to spend part of his time in an initial military-style camp.
Under the terms of the grievance agreement, Clark is not allowed to use computers without the permission and supervision of law enforcement.
Twitter conducted an internal investigation after the rape and found that hackers targeted employees in a “phone phishing attack,” fooling them into thinking they were talking to other Twitter employees about accessing Twitter’s internal tools. .
Mason “Chaewon” Sheppard of the United Kingdom and Nima “Rolex” Fazeli have also been charged with the attack and face jail.