Graham Ivan Clark, age 18 was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts when he was 17 years old. Clark managed to gain access to numerous accounts of powerful people and celebrities, such as: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Floyd Mayweather, Kim Kardashian, Uber, Apple and more, and used the hacked accounts for a cryptocurrency-related scheme, generating over $100,000. Despite his young age, Clark was tried as an adult since the case was considered financial fraud.<\/p>\n
In order to gain access to these high-profile accounts, Clark posed as an employee of Twitter and was able to trick another employee into giving him access to the customer service portal.<\/p>\n
According to his defense attorney, David Weisbrod, Clark turned over all the cryptocurrency he had acquired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"