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| 17-year-old minor hacked Twitter to earn close to 22.5 million bitcoins |
San Francisco: The boy who carried out the biggest hack on Twitter has been arrested. According to media reports, this person has earned bitcoins worth 3 million dollars, or about 22.5 crore rupees. 17-year-old Graham Ewan Clarke is from Florida with the help of two of his colleagues, who shocked everyone last month by hacking Twitter profiles of 130 celebrities, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk. Graham and his associates have been convicted by the US Department of Justice.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, these boys, who hail from Tampa, Florida, were presented in court for the first time this weekend and explained in detail how to do their job. Clarke was presented in front of County Judge Joel N. Ober on a video screen in a small courtroom.
Under Florida law, the amount of bail set to settle Clark's pending trial would be ten percent of $ 750,000, or $ 72,500, because he is younger. Clarke enlisted the help of 22-year-old Neema Faizali of Orlando and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard from Britain for this task.
The Justice Department said in a statement last week, Clarke has been charged with 17 charges of communication fraud, 11 for fraudulent use of personal information and one for organized fraud. 19-year-old Mason Sheppard of Britain has been charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and willfully tampering with a protected computer. 22-year-old Neema Faizali has been accused of willfully tampering with the protected computer and assisting others in this task.