The U.S. Department of Justice has so far charged three people in connection with the largest hack in Twitter history. Now we learn more facts about the incident. Twitter, hackers and $100,000 in BTC Investigators say the mastermind behind the hacking operation was 17-year-old Graham Clark from Tampa, Florida (we wrote more about him here). However, he was assisted by 22-year-old Nim "Rolex" Fazeli of Orlando, Florida, and Mason "Chaewon" Sheppard of Bognor Regis, UK. All three, headed by Clark, allegedly hacked into the Twitter accounts of several VIPs (such as US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Bill Gates) and used them to scam hundreds of unsuspecting victims. On the profiles of these famous people, the young hackers published posts promoting a certain scam. The latter was supposedly giving away BTC. The condition for receiving a prize was to send cryptocurrencies to the project's address, which would be multiplied in response. The US Attorney's document states that: "The hackers allegedly created a scam [online] Bitcoin account, hacked into VIP Twitter accounts, sent requests from those VIP Twitter accounts with the false promise of doubling any Bitcoin deposits made in the scam account, and then stole the Bitcoins the victims had deposited in the account. As stated, more than 400 transfers totaling over $100,000 were made to the scam account." How did the attack happen? Twitter says the attackers used its phishing program, which targeted a small number of company employees. The IRS adds that its service agents "analyzed the blockchain and de-anonymized Bitcoin transactions, allowing two different hackers to be identified." Authorities say they were able to determine fairly quickly who was responsible for the attack. Clark himself was charged with 30 felonies, including organizing a scam, "communications fraud," identity theft and hacking into victims' accounts. His alleged associate, Fazeli, has only been charged with hacking into a computer system, while Sheppard is charged with hacking, organizing a scam and preparing money laundering. Tags hacking attack hackers twitter hackers
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