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Florida teen Graham Clark pleads guilty to hacking Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, celebrities
A Florida teenager who hacked into several celebrities’ Twitter accounts will serve three years in a juvenile prison after pleading guilty to fraud charges.
Key points:
- The verified Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama and others were hacked by Graham Clark
- The teen was able to steal about $150,000 in Bitcoin through the scam
- Authorities said Twitter suffered from “cybersecurity shortfalls” that allowed the hacking to occur
Graham Clark, 18, last year hacked into into 40 different verified accounts, through which he solicited more than $US118,000 ($150,000) in Bitcoin.
The accounts he hacked included those belonging to US President Joe Biden — who was then a presidential candidate — former US president Barack Obama, tech moguls…
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