3 people arrested for hacker attack on Twitter. The mind is a 17 year old

Seventeen-year-old Florida resident Graham Clark was arrested on Friday morning. Prosecutor Andrew Warren filed 30 criminal charges, including organized fraud, communication fraud, fraudulent use of personal information and unauthorized access to computers or electronic devices.

Federal officials also accused Nima Fazeli and Mason John Sheppard of contributing to "intentional access to a protected computer" and conspiring to organize fraud and money laundering, according to the criminal motions released on Friday.

Warren has stated that Clark will be treated as an adult defendant. Florida law allows minors to be charged as adults in some cases of financial fraud.

Twitter hacking compromised the accounts of the major cryptocurrency exchanges and major cryptocurrency accounts, before moving on to VIP accounts such as those of Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Kanye West, Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.

A total of 130 accounts have been compromised according to Twitter. Hackers grossed around $ 120.000. The hacking went on for hours, exposed major security flaws and led Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before the United States Congress.

“Breathtaking impact”

In an attempt to stop hackers, Twitter has blocked some verified accounts, preventing them from changing their password or being able to tweet. Security experts were particularly concerned about the security of account private messages.

The day after the hack, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) said he met Dorsey privately in 2018 and discussed the implementation of end-to-end encryption of users' private messages.

Wyden says Dorsey had told him that Twitter was working on encrypted DMs, but it was clear that the company would not be able to update its security options by 2020. Twitter claimed that the attackers had downloaded personal information from eight accounts among those affected, but none of these have been verified.

Reuters also reported that over 1.000 employees and contractors, nearly a fifth of the company, had access to the tools used to access the accounts.

The dynamics of the attack

In a tweet on Thursday, Twitter provided further details on how the attack occurred. "The attack on July 15, 2020 targeted a small number of employees through a telephone phishing system," tweeted the company.

"This attack was based on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to our internal systems."

In the days following the hacking, reports from numerous outlets not only followed the flow of where the money was going, tracing the bitcoin wallet - quotation in real time - to which funds were sent, but they also began to unravel the story behind the hack.

Hackers allegedly stopped after the acquisitions of larger accounts frightened them, given the likelihood that compromising those accounts would have attracted law enforcement attention. Considering that the FBI was on the case from the start, those concerns were well founded.