17-year-old boy hacked into Apple, Musk and other Twitter accounts to defraud Bitcoin and was sentenced to 3 years in prison

March 17 news According to the Tampa Bay Times, a Florida teenager accused of being the "mastermind" of the July 2020 Twitter hacking incident has agreed to a plea agreement and he will spend three years in prison.

The teenager's name is Graham Ivan Clark. Together with others, he hacked into the Twitter accounts of 130 well-known companies and individuals to defraud Bitcoin and defrauded more than $100,000. The accounts of Apple, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former US President Obama, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and US President Joe Biden were all hacked.

Clark is expected to plead guilty to state charges this week and be sentenced to three years in prison and three years of probation. Because he was 17 when the incident occurred, he will be sentenced as a "juvenile offender" and may be eligible to serve part of the time in a military-style boot camp.

Reporters learned that under the terms of the plea agreement, Clark is not allowed to use a computer without the permission and supervision of law enforcement.

Twitter conducted an internal investigation after the breach and found that hackers targeted employees with "phone phishing attacks" to trick them into thinking they were talking to other Twitter employees in order to gain access to Twitter's internal tools.

Mason "Chaewon" Sheppard and Nima "Rolex" Fazeli, both from the United Kingdom, have also been charged in the attack and face jail time.