Topic: Twitter Hackers Arrested! [Updated] (Read 1104 times)

They may not be the smartest hackers. However, they turned out to be smarter than the twitter team once they managed to get around them and gain access to god mode.
You should never underestimate your opponent, in this case hackers. Their skill and skill deserve respect anyway, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't go to jail for their actions.

It saddens me to hear some news about this hacked account on twitter. In this time of pandemic a lot of bad guys are everywhere and I don't know what benefits they could get on hacking this twitter account. And what saddens me the most is the hacker, he is younger than me and it seems like his parents didn't taught him how to do good deeds.

How the FBI tracked down the Twitter hackers
There is no perfect crime.
The ZDNet writing team put together a timeline with the documents filed in court by the DOJ.

Teenagers made a lot of mistakes. Here KYC demonstrated why it is important to apply it.
In the hacker circle they feel the need to get popular by making a remarkable attack and spreading it.

We can see the vulnerability that is in the internet. But important because developers will be working to make platforms more secure.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/how-the-fbi-tracked-down-the-twitter-hackers/

A juvenile of the past is really different from today. The future generations become more techy savvy without a proper nurture of heart. The crimes have been committed nowadays are made by minority. Seems like they don`t really care upon the consequences because they only want their desires. Hacking popular person of crypto and business are not easy unless you have a deep knowledge about dark web. Anyway, I think it is good to guide him rather than he will be in jailed. Because he can do more legal things in the future rather than to be a enemy of the government.

Due to the degree of the hack, he's going to face the sentence and nothing more in my opinion. Although, a critical look into this situation shown that such a teen shouldn't have access to such information that granted him access to Almighty Twitter accounts. The hack was massive and believe me all the complaisance will be fish out and jail accordingly. He deserve to rest and learn the hard way in jail. When a brain is hot, then learn to control it positively and not negatively, sorry teen!.

That is such a good example of what talented hackers can do. Thank you!

The video isn't that long, it's less than 10 minutes, but there's so much valuable info in it. By donig legitimate hacking you can earn 20k USD for a single report, 160k USD in a single day, 636k USD withing one year. That's what happened to Tommy DeVoss, the hero of the story, after he served 4 years behind bars for being a "bad" hacker, and decided to become a "good" one.

There's also an info on how other legitimate hackers are doing:



I think it is possible to make even more money by collaborating with criminals. But if 636k USD per year is not enough for you, it is called greed, and you deserve to spend most of your life in prison. That's how I think about it.

Pretty sure those will be put to prison and maybe there are some stories needed to disclose here. There is no way that only 17 year old could do this without those people around that are much more knowledgeable in this hacking activity. I think that the 17 year old was just a bait for the real one who do this hacking activity. Well this will probably a long way before this can be resolve. Hoping for the best of the investigation although the prosecutor had already been convince that the 17 year old is no ordinary 17 years old having the knowledge on hacking.

This is the result of lack of parental supervision, so teenagers who hack Twitter use their skills for bad things.
Hopefully this is a lesson for other parents, in order to improve the way they educate their children and provide
supervision of children's activities and interactions. If it's not like the three teenagers who are finally caught
because they have hacked Twitter and used it to deceive many people.

The arrest of Graham Clark of the Twitter hacker, who posted a fake Bitcoin giveaway on the accounts of a famous figure, echoes the discourse that crypto asset transactions are easier to trace than in the normal money system (fiat money).
Chainalysis company, from the United States (US), for example, helps the US government to track Bitcoin obtained by Twitter hackers. Now cryptocurrency has been integrated with law enforcement measures in many countries, for example exchanges in partnership with the government so that Bitcoin transactions are more easily tracked, which are related to crime.

But we will never know what will happen to them if there will be no reports by the media. If a company or if the government truly sees the potential on them, they will simply absorb them.

I'm expecting that if there will be no more updates and news about this issue, it's like that they'll let the issue die eventually and we will never know what happened to them. If they have been hired and employed.

These kids are in a serious trouble but honestly at that age they managed to do such thing the hacking of some big personalities and scamming other people.
They needs to face his consequences for that, I've seen the address they posted and a lot of people really do send Bitcoins to the address.

ya.ya.yo!

Indeed, youth has not experienced life. That is the end of the act of belittling young Americans in the law. He broke into celebrity accounts and scammed people's money. Fortunately, he did not bring any false news about politics. Although he made some money, I think that money will never be used because it is monitored on blockchain technology.

I have watch a youtube video concerning a hacker that gets arrested and putted to jail for almost 4 years behind bars, he is considered a million dollar hacker, and right now, he is doing a bug bounty job and it really pays allot with this kind of talent. I am not saying that most of us should pursue hacking, but with these kids with exceptional talents, they should first learn how to repent and change, because real money will come in legal ways.

That's exactly what I mean. Those kids weren't born criminals. I would throw in jail every song writer and film director who romanticized criminal activity first, because such kids are the product of their "art". In fact, I wouldn't throw in jail writers and film directors, because no one should go to jail for art, but, I mean, to make those kids rot in jail for the rest of their lives is even more wrong. They should be dishonored for their actions, but their talent must be used for the benefit of society, and no one can work effectively when in prison.

I hope that you are right about the impact that it has with regards to mass cryptocurrency adoption because this could either scare the people knowing that they could be a victim, or it will propel hackers to find new ways to get away from stealing cryptocurrency, I hope this also propel law enforcement agencies to further their grip in making sure that using cryptocurrency is safe from this hacks. Regarding the kid who was arrested for the hacks, I think if reformation was enforced instead of incarceration, the skills he have can be put to good use and not just to this kid, this also applies to other hackers who could be guided into straight path.

This is huge in terms of adoption because regulators will know that you can trace those scammers that use Bitcoin as scheme to manipulate and steal money from people through pyramid scheme's, and criminals cannot used it as there will be consequences.
Bitcoin cannot be used as a tool for money laundering, because the Blockchain is open to the public and its pseudonymous.

Its sad but this is indeed part of the reality where those hackers do able to breach out big companies will surely have the potential that would really be get hired.
What would you able to do if the government would make such decision? none right. They do see these individuals to be a good add up into their security system sector
thats why they dont waste up their talents and knowledge by just putting them up to jail but rather they do absorbed and make of those skills for further
enhancements when it comes to security aspects but i do agree into your point that crime should really be paid off first before anything else.

^ Same here, but I have doubt that there are too many of them, and not that kid can't do this alone.
That kid has terrible skills in hacking if government will hire that kid to work with them and busted criminals activity which is very good deeds for cyber investigations, much better. Recently I watched the news on this youtube video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1J5q_QOWpE, Isaw that guy hacker face and look like he is really scary. Nevertheless, those others hopefully will be caught as soon as possible.

This is really shocking I wasn't expecting that the person behind the biggest Twitter hacking event was just a 17 years old kid.
In an early age he already throw away his future but I guess it would depend if the government decides to use his skill and make some deal out of it.
But to be honest it is really scary how this 17 year old make it happen.

These millennials, how could they be so stupid? This kind of thing, you cannot absolutely go against your own country, even with the infamous "7 proxy" whatever stupid media culture portrays.

If they were, i don't know Russians, Chinese, Iranians or North Koreans, places where America can't reach, i would get it. But Americans against Americans?; well what can i say. Just breaching an American company server is bad enough, lets ignore the many affected individuals all right and powerful enough to permanently ruin this kid's life... Its suicidal, i don't think the common black hat is dumb enough for this.

And on top of that there was that juicy bounty, which would lure the others. Yup, not gonna end good. Lets see how many more are involved, so in the end it was a bunch of kids for the lulz. Unless they recruit him or something, which i bet some of them dream of, but i doubt it its not that stage in history anymore. The State has plenty of skilled employees already, even the military, for "cyber" operations. Those romantic days of "do a great hack and get hired" are long gone.

5 to 10 years really sounds small for America. Unless he does a lot of negotiation giving names, etc. I remember how Manning got busted for trusting Lamo who in turn was another idiot turned informant...

If they did this against China, Wechat, TikTok whatever, they would probably be getting a medal in the Whitehouse instead (and recruitment probably)