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17-Year-Old ‘Mastermind’, 2 Others Behind the Biggest Twitter Hack Arrested

A 17-year-old teen and two other teens have been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack. Graham Clark has reportedly been charged with 30 felonies of communications and organized fraud for scamming hundreds of people using compromised accounts. Twitter said a total of 130 user accounts were targeted in the latest attack, out of which only 45 verified accounts were exploited to publish scam tweets. Twitter also revealed that some of its employees were targeted using a spear-phishing attack through a phone, misleading “certain employees”

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/07/twitter-hacker-arrested.html

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