Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Bill Gates or even the Apple and Uber companies.
The list of victims of an impressive hack of official Twitter accounts last summer is staggering.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, the judges of a court in Florida nevertheless kept a cool head Tuesday when accepting a "deal" with Graham Ivan Clark.
The teenager has admitted the facts and will spend three years in a young adult prison.
"He must be held responsible for this crime and other potential crooks can see the consequences of their actions," insisted the Hillsborough County prosecutor who was lenient.
"In this case, we were able to apply the law without mortgaging his future while showing him, as with every child as much as possible, that he must learn this lesson well."
A $ 100,000 scam
By judging him as a minor, the young pirate avoids the minimum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Familiar with DarkWeb sites, the brain of the operation had first acquired internal Twitter access to certified accounts and then set up a high-profile and therefore risky scam attempt.
After spoofing celebrity accounts, he demanded that users send him Bitcoins and promised to double their value.
A high school student at the time, he would have received at least $ 110,000, according to the investigation conducted by the FBI.
Graham Ivan Clark was on trial for 30 crimes related to his online scam.
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In exchange for a lighter sentence, he agreed to return these cryptocurrencies and will only be allowed to use a computer under the supervision of a police officer.
He will also have to provide all the passwords for all his accounts.
A form of social death for a hacker.
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His two accomplices, one based in Florida and the other in the United Kingdom, will be tried at the federal level in California and face much harsher sentences.
