Twitter Hackers Arrested! [Updated] - page 6.

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Quote from: uneng on July 31, 2020, 05:41:31 PM

But wasn't bitcoin the perfect criminal's currency because it's untrackable? Cheesy

Another fake news dismounted. I want to see now what media and crypto haters will say about it. Actually the hackers were taken much faster than in some cases which involved fiat instead of bitcoins. It's a clear sign to hackers and another kinds of scammers they aren't safe for using crypto currency!

If you want to know how they were tracked, read this https://www.wired.com/story/how-alleged-twitter-hackers-got-caught-bitcoin/ (credit to suchmoon)

Quote from: suchmoon on July 31, 2020, 09:13:26 PM

Basically no Tor and no mixer, used Coinbase, etc. And it wasn't really the blockchain that did them in. They started the scheme basically in public on some forum and on Discord and the forum had been hacked in the past so all account e-mails, IPs, etc were conveniently available to the FBI. The funny thing is they made like 30 grand on low-key Twitter account theft and nobody cared. Probably would have made more if they just stayed under radar.

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If the master mind boy of Twitter hacking got arrested then I think the funds what had been stolen can recover easily.
Is this will happen actually? What you think? It should be recovered because who have funds got arrested if suspect is true.

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Quote from: tippytoes on July 31, 2020, 05:05:03 PM

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Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

I feel pity on him if he will only end his life in jail. I hope they can work around here and just hire him for other vital projects. He's too young to just spend his entire life in prison. He can still change and do something different for his life. Let's see what will be the verdict on him and his accessories.

Definitely the government or huge companies will hire him for what he has done. Yeah, he is too young but he have done something that isn't should be done by a 17 years old so he should face those consequences. They filed a lot of cases to him because he targeted strong and high-profile persons' accounts.

Quote from: Harlot on July 31, 2020, 05:13:32 PM

I was reading the news and I was wondering why a 17 year old can be charged in a case like this even if he is a minor and article in Verge clarified that the law in Florida allows to be charged and possible get prison sentence even if you are a minor on financial fraud cases. I think this minor isn't really an ordinary person since he can do what he did but the wrong thing he done is assume that he can get away with this just for being a minor. Plus finding accomplices with him over the age of 18 just only make him look like he really planned the hack. But since this is just the early stages on the discoveries I doubt we have seen everything and there might really be a real mastermind here controlling these kids.

Absolutely, no one could possibly learn how to hack accounts by just browsing on the internet or watching videos, It is a group of hackers and he learned from it. But some hacker groups wouldn't do such things like this and I bet that white hackers are already looking some of them.

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At 17 years of age what he has done is very big. Along with him two more has been arrested, anyhow this is a group execution. Really hard to breach by a single person. When one is concentrating into the process of hacking, he needs alternate plans to make it successful. This might have been done by the fellow companions. Anyhow government has took it seriously, else this guys could've never been caught this short.

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Quote from: joinfree on July 31, 2020, 05:34:47 PM

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Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

If the kid is really that smart, then he can enter a plea bargain, specially if that offer is in that table coming from the prosecutor and in turn reveal how he hacked where is the money now etc. And be in community service + probation for three years out of the prison.

And then work with US agencies and be the good guy next time around. He could have a career as a security experts, so there are a lot of options for him not to waste that talent and used it for good measures.

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But wasn't bitcoin the perfect criminal's currency because it's untrackable? Cheesy

Another fake news dismounted. I want to see now what media and crypto haters will say about it. Actually the hackers were taken much faster than in some cases which involved fiat instead of bitcoins. It's a clear sign to hackers and another kinds of scammers they aren't safe for using crypto currency!

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Quote from: MainIbem on July 31, 2020, 02:41:33 PM

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

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Well, I can't imagine at that age that kid was expert on hacking, --that's an absolutely ^{[extra ordernary]} kid that we don't know why he becomes that famous hacker. That's just only a kid, how much more if that kid becomes mature I don't know how many becomes a victim of him. Indeed, that kid wasn't alone in this scam operation. Perhaps they are a group and maybe they target those big-time profiles at once in a time.

I have been researched what that kid his face looks like but I did not find it.

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I was reading the news and I was wondering why a 17 year old can be charged in a case like this even if he is a minor and article in Verge clarified that the law in Florida allows to be charged and possible get prison sentence even if you are a minor on financial fraud cases. I think this minor isn't really an ordinary person since he can do what he did but the wrong thing he done is assume that he can get away with this just for being a minor. Plus finding accomplices with him over the age of 18 just only make him look like he really planned the hack. But since this is just the early stages on the discoveries I doubt we have seen everything and there might really be a real mastermind here controlling these kids.

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Quote from: MainIbem on July 31, 2020, 02:41:33 PM

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

I feel pity on him if he will only end his life in jail. I hope they can work around here and just hire him for other vital projects. He's too young to just spend his entire life in prison. He can still change and do something different for his life. Let's see what will be the verdict on him and his accessories.

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For sure this kid isn't alone. The other two were just accessories, obviously hackers won't get caught being too stupid for sending scammed Btc in a centralized exchange lol.
Nevertheless, the US law enforcement did a really good job for busting a blockbuster account breaching in Twitter.
I'm just wondering, the article didn't mentioned about confiscating the scammed Btc. Are the victims will receive back their Btc if they can provide a valid claim through the blockchain record?

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Quote from: Leonardo7 on July 31, 2020, 03:44:26 PM

I can't believe just a 17year old teen carried out that high profile hack. There must be more to this hack talking about bitcoin and giveway. Just a teen couldn't have done that alone for what reason? A proper investigation should be conducted to avoid leaving the bigger devil.

I believed that those teenagers loves adventure and they are bolder in their target. But this hacks is one on the top I would say, maybe he wanted to make a name for himself in the wrong way. There are still two persons involved in this and I don't think that they are going to arrested someone without any thorough proof. US inter agencies really works this case and its time to put justice regardless if he is a teenager or an adult. And let this be a lesson for Twitter, I'm sure Jack is very happy about the news but they need to improve more on their security so that this kind of incidents won't happen.

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I knew that sooner or later those hackers are going to be caught, specially when he targeted high profile accounts that included an ex-President of the United States of America. And then a news surfaced after the hack that it was indeed teenagers who perpetuated this, they even interview him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/technology/twitter-hackers-interview.html

FBI stepped up to join the picture and this is the result. Good job.

I agree with @DarkDays, he can be tried as adult here because of the severity of his crimes. Meaning longer jail time for this 17 year old. There are two more suspects, one US based and one in UK.

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FBI, SSS and sister security agencies should make a thorough investigation to unravel other culprits and the accomplished of the 17 year old suspects the other culprits should be arrested ASAP, hacking of such magnitude will surely involves some links who might had contributed one way or the other towards the twitter hack possibly an insider might be involved too I don't believe that the kid committed the crime alone the hack is more of a sophisticated and high profile one.

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Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

I guess the $1 million bounty Justin Sun put on his head was enough to send people on an epic man(boy?)hunt.

Just a boy hunt, I didn't think that the biggest twitter breaching in history will just be made by a 17-yr old boy. I thought it was coordinated attacks from an organization scattered around the globe, this is a hell of a blast! But I'm still in doubt that he did that all alone, there must have been more suspects hiding behind this 17-yr old boy. And I'm wondering if they can really sanctioned that boy that crime, he's under age and must be under the protection of state custody first.

Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Let's see if he can social engineer his way out of jail.

If this is true, I don't think such organization like CIA would just let this big brainer kid to sit and serve his sentence in jail. Lips sealed

Pretty sure that minors can be tried as adults in exceptional circumstances. Given the publicity of this breach, I expect it qualifies for special treatment.

It's really not too difficult to social engineer somebody. There are plenty of 17-year-olds, and even younger that are vastly more intelligent than your average Twitter employee. It wouldn't come as much surprise if we found out that the kid was operating alone.

He's probably not some sort of prodigy or savant, since it doesn't take an era-defining genius to trick some Twitter plebs or perform a sim swap attack.

I don't think they should make an example of him, but you can bet Twitter users are gunning for the firing squad.

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I can't believe just a 17year old teen carried out that high profile hack. There must be more to this hack talking about bitcoin and giveway. Just a teen couldn't have done that alone for what reason? A proper investigation should be conducted to avoid leaving the bigger devil.

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UPDATE: 3:30 PM EST — According to the U.S. Department of Justice, two other individuals — 19-year-old U.K. resident Mason Sheppard and 22-year-old Florida resident Nima Fazeli — have also been charged for their alleged participation in the hacks.

Sheppard has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and the intentional access of a protected computer.
Fazeli has been charged with aiding and abetting the intentional access of a protected computer. Both were charged via a complaint filed in the Northern District of California, according to the DOJ's statement.

Among the listed participants in the investigation was blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/73626/florida-arrest-twitter-hacks-bitcoin

All this reminds of the series Mr. Robot.

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I just wonder why this news is hiding here not in the public, I need more verification for such an hack that shook one of the top social media and most influential person in the world, while the news of the apprehension is on few papers. I believe such intelligent kid does not get as much pay as those protecting twitter, as much as the boy could be jailed twitter need to found out other loopholes in their project, more also the scam address should be refunded.

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It's not possible to get away with a high profile crime like this one, if ordinary people were hacked, you'll not expect the CIA and other security agencies to give their all in the chase to pin the hackers, but the accounts affected are owned by prominent men in the U.S and in the world at large. It was only a matter of time, but getting those behind it was inevitable imo. There will still be a lot of unravelling to be done, this kid is prolly not the mastermind behind this, he is just the first to go down.

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Quote from: DarkDays on July 31, 2020, 02:13:47 PM

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

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