National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

The British teenager accused of being part of the gang that hacked Twitter and posted a cryptocurrency scam from various US celebrities' accounts has not yet been arrested.


Mason Sheppard, a 19-year-old of Bognor Regis in the English county of West Sussex, has been visited by the National Crime Agency but no arrests have been made on this side of the Atlantic.


However, one of Sheppard's co-accused, 17-year-old Graham Clark of Florida, USA, appeared in a local court on Saturday to enter a not-guilty plea over the account hijackings.


On 15 July, a flurry of tweets from verified Twitter accounts exhorted followers to send Bitcoin to a specified wallet. Those endorsing this bizarre message included Bill ..

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