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Teen Behind Twitter Bit-Con Breach Cuts Plea Deal

Graham Clark, 18, will not be charged as an adult and instead will serve his sentence in juvenile detention. If he violates probation, he will face a minimum of 10 years in adult prison. He will be under supervision until 2026, when he will be 23 years old, prosecutors said. Clark breached Twitter s internal systems to take over the accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates Elon Musk and Apple s Elon Musk. Twitter said the attack relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees, to gain access to our internal systems.

Source: https://threatpost.com/teen-twitter-breach-plea-deal/164863/

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