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17-year-old Florida resident charged in connection with Twitter hack and bitcoin giveaway scam
The state attorney of Hillsborough County, Florida, announced Friday that it filed 30 felony charges against 17-year-year old Graham Clark for his alleged role in this month's Twitter account hack wave. As The Block reported earlier this month, the accounts of a range of major political and technology figures — as well as crypto exchanges and industry businesses — were hacked and used to distribute messages directing users to a bitcoin giveaway scam. Twitter eventually regained control of those accounts and has since published information about the incident, including a Thursday release pointing to a "phone ... (full story)