A 17 year old Tampa Florida teen is being criminally charged with 30 felony charges for masterminding the hacking and taking over the Twitter accts. of Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Currently he is the only one charged but there may possibly be others involved. He is said to live alone?? He will be charged as an adult.
The U.S. Department of Justice has now charged two others in the hacking they are a 22 year old Nima Fazeli from Orlando Fla. and 19 year old Mason Sheppard of the United Kingdom , their Twitter aliases are "Rolex" and "Chaewon". These three reportedly scammed Twitter users out of 12.86 Bitcoin or approximately $117,457.58
They stole fake money? Your tax dollars at work protecting the rich & powful from the weak & powless...
The 17 year old now identified as Graham Ivan Clark of Tampa who had $700,000 in Bitcoin in his possession at the time of his arrest.Antid you can give me all of that fake Bitcoin money you can lay your hands on !!
Sigh .... Does every idiot in the world have to live in Florida? Aint it bad enough we got Cap'n Cheeto, Ron DeSlappyAss, and Doormat Gaetz?
You can say alot about the kid but you can't call him an idiot. You want to take a stab at the number of people in America with the technical ability to hack Twitter? The kid is tremendously gifted. He is in the top 0.01% for computer skills. He deserves a second chance and will probably get it.
Hack my Twitter account or yours - nothing happens Hack some celebrity accounts - Get thrown in the adult gen pop Sounds like some Marie Antoinette-style *justice* to me...
I lived in Tampa for 16 years. 6 miles north of the airport, want to hear about my "white privilege"?
That isn't the point. The only chose to target certain "celebrity" accounts because they have lots of (arguably naive) followers. The put fake tweets on the accounts offering to double the money of bitcoins sent in so the direct victims weren't the "celebrities" themselves but the individuals who fell for it. They probably wouldn't have faced any criminal charges for "just" accessing Twitter accounts, regardless of whose they were, it's the fraud that was their crime. They could have tried the same kind of thing by e-mail, post or telephone and it would have been just as illegal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53425822
Clarification appreciated. I guess if I use a water pistol to steal someone's Monopoly money it's still a crime...
Bitcoin has recognised value regardless of whether you (or I) like it or not. I don't think you should be belittling serious fraud like this.
Well for a while he was doing very well living alone at 17 with over $700,000 of Bitcoin in his possession. His big mistake was attacking those celebrity Twitter accounts which probably were not even Bitcoin traders.