Florida teenager to spend three years in jail for Twitter hack affecting Apple

A teenager in Florida, who is accused of being the “brainwashing” behind an Apple Twitter hack that hit in 2020, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Graham Ivan Clark, along with others, compromised the Twitter accounts of 130 prominent companies and individuals asking for Bitcoin, cheating people out of more than $ 100,000. Apple’s official account was obtained, as well as the accounts of Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, Barack Obama, former US President, Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, and President Joe Biden.

Clark will plead guilty this week to state charges in exchange for three years in prison and a three-year probation. Because Clark was only 17 at the time of the attack, he will be sentenced as a ‘juvenile offender’ and may be eligible to serve some of his time in a military boat camp.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Clark may not use computers without the permission and supervision of law enforcement.

Twitter conducted an internal investigation into the breach and found that hackers had targeted employees in a “phishing attack”, which misled them into thinking they were talking to other Twitter employees to gain access to Twitter’s internal tools.

Mason “Chaewon” Sheppard from the UK and Nima “Rolex” Fazeli are also charged in the attack and are jailed.