At the time of the Twitter hack and his arrest, Graham Ivan Clark was 17, therefore, being sentenced as a “youthful offender.”
Graham Ivan Clark, the mastermind of the high-profile Twitter hack leading to the Bitcoin scam on July 15th, 2020 has been sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Clark was arrested on July 31st, 2020 from Tampa, Florida when he was 17 and charged with multiple counts of organized fraud, communications fraud, fraudulent use of personal information, and accessing computer or electronic device without authority.
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According to Tampa Bay Times, on Tuesday 16th, Clark, who is now 18, pleaded guilty to state charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence followed by three years probation.
Clark will be banned from using computers without supervision or permission from law enforcement. However, since Clark was 17 at the time of arrest, he is being sentenced as a “youthful offender” rather than as an adult that would have put him to prison for a minimum 10-year.
Graham Ivan Clark’s mugshot from 2020
It is worth noting that Clark’s victims included verified Twitter accounts of high-profile celebrities, entrepreneurs, and tech giants including:
Apple
Uber
Joe Biden
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Justin Sun
Jeff Bezos
Coinbase
Gemini
Kanye West
Barack Obama
Kim Kardashian.
Clark along with two other collaborators Nima Fazeli, aka “Rolex,” 22, of Orlando, Florida, and Mason Sheppard, aka ..
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