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Florida teen charged with twitter hack that affected accounts of Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and other A-listers Florida teen charged with twitter hack that affected accounts of Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Elon Musk and other A-listers
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A 17-year-old Florida teenager has been arrested and charged over the recent hacking attack that targeted more than 100 Twitter accounts, including multiple high-profile accounts, in a bid to collect bitcoin donations.
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested early on July 31 and charged with 30 felony charges over the scam, Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren’s office said in a statement.
The Tampa teenager managed to gain access to numerous Twitter accounts, including those of former US President Barack Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, rapper Kanye West and his wife, model Kim Kardashian. 
He then posted tweets from many of the accounts claiming that they wanted to "give back to the community" and would double Bitcoin donations sent to an attached address.
Clark managed to collect more than $100,000 in Bitcoin in just one day, the attorney’s office confirmed.
While the probe into the scam was headed by the FBI and deals with federal crimes, the teen will be prosecuted by a Florida court, given that the state's law allows minors to be charged as adults in financial fraud cases.
The teenager was detained following what the attorney’s office called “a complex nationwide investigation” conducted by local investigators together with the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Secret Service. The US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California and Florida’s Department of Law enforcement were also involved.
“These crimes were perpetrated using the names of famous people and celebrities, but they’re not the primary victims here," Warren said, explaining that the real target was regular Americans who the teen wanted to swindle money from.
"This ‘Bit-Con’ was designed to steal money from regular Americans from all over the country, including here in Florida. This massive fraud was orchestrated right here in our backyard, and we will not stand for that,” he added.
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