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A 17-year-old from Tampa, Florida was arrested on Friday over the July 15 Twitter hack that affected the accounts belonging to high-profile users such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and more. Earlier this month, several prominent Twitter accounts were seemingly hacked to tweet out the same message about a fake giveaway for Bitcoin. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested as the “mastermind” of the attacks. He reportedly gained more than $100,000 in a single day from the hack. Clark was charged alongside two others. 22-year-old Nima Fazeli and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren called the crime a “highly sophisticated attack on a magnitude not seen before.” Clark faces 30 charges including one count of organized fraud of more than $50,000, 17 counts of felony communications fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, 10 counts of identity theft, and one count of hacking and unlawful access to a computer in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. Following the Twitter hack, Twitter shut down the ability for some users to Tweet as it investigated the attack. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.
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