Court documents made public last week by U.S. authorities following the announcement of charges against three individuals allegedly involved in the recent Twitter attack revealed how some of the hackers were identified by investigators.
News of the charges came shortly after Twitter revealed that the attackers gained access to its internal systems and tools, which they later used to take control of tens of high-profile accounts, by using phone spear-phishing. The hackers targeted 130 accounts, but reset the passwords for only 45 of them, many of which were used to post tweets that were part of a bitcoin scam.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it charged 22-year-old Nima Fazeli (aka Rolex, Rolex#0373, and Nim F) of Orlando, Florida, 19-year-old Mason John Sheppard (aka Chaewon and “ever so anxious#001”) of the United Kingdom, and 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark (aka Kirk#5270), of Tampa, Florida.
Clark is believed to be the mastermind of the operation — he is the one who allegedly broke into Twitter’s systems. Fazeli and Sheppard are believed to have helped him sell access to Twitter accounts.
According to court documents, a user with the online moniker Kirk#5270 on the chat service Discord claimed to work for Twitter and offered to provide access to any user account. That is how he met Rolex and Chaewon, who helped him sell access to Twitter accounts, including on the OGUsers.com hacking forum, which specializes in the trading of socia ..
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