US and UK Teens Arrested in Connection with Twitter Hack

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Law enforcement agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have charged three people suspected of being responsible for the massive Twitter attack that took over the accounts of politicians, celebrities and industry figures. technology with the aim of defrauding people around the world using Bitcoin. The three male suspects include a 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom, a 22-year-old man from Orlando and a teenager from Tampa, Florida. The 17-year-old was arrested last week in Tampa and faces 30 felony charges for his role in the hack. Despite being the youngest of the group, the Florida teen was actually the leader of the hacking scam and is being sued as an adult because Florida law allows minors to be charged as adults in financial fraud cases. However, security experts were not surprised by this, as the amateur nature of the operation, as well as the willingness of its members to discuss the hack with journalists online, ran counter to the way cybercriminals operate. generally. In the United States, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigators were able to identify two of the hackers simply by analyzing their Bitcoin transactions, including those they attempted to keep anonymous.

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Last month, the group of young hackers took control of the accounts of major public figures and companies such as Joe Bide, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple and others. They then used the popularity of these accounts and their tens of millions of subscribers to send a series of tweets telling users that they would receive double their money if they sent bitcoins to a specific address online. The hack lasted several hours and to prevent more compromised accounts from tweeting the message, Twitter suspended all verified accounts with a blue check mark from sending tweets. The social media giant recently said that the hack was the result of a phishing attack. Unlike a traditional phishing attack where criminals send a fraudulent message to try to collect as many credentials as possible, in a phishing attack, hackers assume the identity of someone known to their target. to increase the chances of success. While the recent Twitter hack was the first of its kind, the attackers behind it ended up earning only around €120,000 in bitcoin from their victims. Let's hope others don't try to follow in their footsteps now that those behind the hack have been arrested by the police. Via The Guardian