[HN Gopher] Man Arrested in Connection with Alleged Role in Twit...
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       Man Arrested in Connection with Alleged Role in Twitter Hack
        
       Author : ip_addr
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-07-21 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.justice.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.justice.gov)
        
       | encryptluks2 wrote:
       | Wonder how long it will take for them to give him a job offer.
        
       | okareaman wrote:
       | From his Twitter profile: "Harmless wannabe hacker | Made 50k
       | selling configs and 1 Million sim swapping"
       | https://twitter.com/lelouchwashere
       | 
       | Another story from the NYT:
       | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/twitter-tiktok...
       | 
       |  _The Twitter incident began when the hackers connected last year
       | in an online forum focused on buying and selling rare user names,
       | some of the individuals involved told The New York Times at that
       | time. They then broke into Twitter's systems by tricking
       | employees into providing login information, according to legal
       | filings. The hackers used an administrative tool to take over
       | accounts belonging to political figures and celebrities,
       | including former President Barack Obama, Kanye West and Elon
       | Musk, using the accounts to conduct a Bitcoin scam, the filings
       | said.
       | 
       | Graham Ivan Clark, an 18-year-old who prosecutors said was the
       | "mastermind" of the Twitter hack, pleaded guilty to fraud charges
       | in March in a Florida court and agreed to serve three years in
       | juvenile prison. Two others, Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli, were
       | arrested and accused of serving as middlemen for Mr. Clark to
       | sell the Twitter accounts.
       | 
       | Mr. O'Connor was a well-known figure among hackers dealing in
       | user names, going by the name "PlugWalkJoe." According to chat
       | logs that the hackers shared with The Times last July, Mr.
       | O'Connor interacted with the group briefly, acquiring the Twitter
       | handle @6.
       | 
       | At the time, Mr. O'Connor denied involvement in the Bitcoin scam.
       | "I don't care," he said in an interview. "They can come arrest
       | me. I would laugh at them. I haven't done anything."
       | 
       | According to an affidavit submitted by an agent with the Federal
       | Bureau of Investigation who investigated the breach, Twitter's
       | logs showed that a Twitter account belonging to Mr. O'Connor had
       | viewed several accounts, as though shopping, during the hack.
       | 
       | Ms. Thorne's Snapchat account was compromised in June 2019,
       | according to the affidavit. The hacker threatened to release nude
       | photos found on the account unless Ms. Thorne posted a tweet
       | thanking him for returning her account, the affidavit said.
       | 
       | Instead, Ms. Thorne posted the images on Twitter. "I feel gross,
       | I feel watched, I feel someone has taken something from me," she
       | wrote in a statement accompanying the photos. "I can sleep
       | tonight better knowing that I took my power back. U can't control
       | my life u never will."_
        
         | sergiomattei wrote:
         | What an ass.
        
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