Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was sentenced to three years in prison as part of a plea deal. Clark will also be banned from using computers without express permission and the direct supervision of law enforcement. Clark, who was just 17 years old, masterminded a massive Twitter hack last summer that involved hacking the accounts of dozens of high profile users to promote a bitcoin scam. Authorities say the scam garnered about $117,000 in bitcoin before it was eventually shut down. The hack exposed grave national and international security threats, and prompted Twitter to take the unprecedented step of disabling tweets from verified accounts.”]
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