Officials say Graham Clark, 17, masterminded the hack of accounts belonging to people like Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Jeff Bezos.
Of the 130 Twitter accounts he targeted, the group sent tweets from 45, accessed the direct messages of 36, and downloaded data from seven, Twitter said.― and what might happen if someone more interested in sowing chaos than stealing bitcoin were able to carry out a similar hack in the future.
The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office is leading the prosecution because Florida law permits charging minors as adults in certain financial fraud cases. The FBI and U.S. Department of Justice also contributed to the investigation. “This defendant lives here in Tampa, he committed the crime here, and he’ll be prosecuted here,” State Attorney Andrew Warren said in a release.
“Scamming people out of their hard-earned money is always wrong,” he added. “Whether you’re taking advantage of someone in person or on the internet, trying to steal their cash or their cryptocurrency — it’s fraud, it’s illegal, and you won’t get away with it.” Clark faces 30 felony charges, including one count of organized fraud over $50,000, one count of fraudulent use of personal information of 30 or more victims, 17 counts of communications fraud and 10 counts of fraudulent use of personal information.
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