The Department of Justice announced Friday that three individuals have been charged with the massive Twitter hack on July 15 — and the alleged mastermind of the scheme is only 17 years old. Twitter was forced to temporarily suspend the accounts of all verified users during the course of the hack after the hackers took control of the Twitter accounts belonging to numerous famous people and companies and caused those accounts to tweet messages encouraging people to donate Bitcoin to an ostensible charity, but instead funneled the donated Bitcoin to the hackers. The hackers managed to scam people out of well over $100,000 worth of Bitcoin during the brief time before Twitter locked out all verified users. According to WFLA-TV, 17-year-old Graham Clark was arrested by police in Florida and charged by the Hillsborough State's Attorney's Office with 30 state law felonies related to the hack. Also, the Department of Justice announced that federal charges have been filed against Nima Faze ...
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