Twitter hackers pleads guilty and agree to a 3 year in prison

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Quote from: JohnBitCo on March 20, 2021, 10:21:54 PM

There should be a proper law for this and the consequences should be defined. When people know that they will get a life time prison they will not try to do these shameful cheap acts. Many times these hackers get away because no one is able to trace them but lucky this time we know the person who did this.

LOL.. the courts will not agree to that. You want to impose life term for twitter hacks? That would make the quantum of punishment more severe than the case with child rape or revenge porn. I guess 3 years is the optimal term in this case. Being in the prison is not a good experience, be it for 3 days or 3 years. And hopefully this 3-year term will be enough to deter and discourage other criminals, who are planning to execute such crimes in the future.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

I'm pretty sure that the Twitter hack is still fresh in our memory, this is high profile because it involves a lot of crypto exchanges like, @coinbase, @Gemini, and @binance and then celebrities, @JeffBezos, @BarackObama, @elon_musk, @JoeBiden, @BillGates, and @WarrenBuffett.

And Graham Ivan Clark was charge last year and now agreed on Tuesday to be sentenced as a youthful offender to three years in prison, + three years of probation.

Here are the official docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515610-plea-agreement-acknowledgment-of-waiver-of-rights-bc-6f018852-673e-4df1-85da-4c5629856265

https://www.sao13th.com/2021/03/prosecutors-reach-plea-agreement-in-case-of-twitter-hacker-graham-clark/ (please note that access might be block for some region due to security reasons).

What are your thoughts of the sentencing? he has served seven months already of the three years sentenced on him.

3 years wasn't Enough for His actions , 3 years imprisonment when hacking even a Former president ? this must be a criminal case as disrespect to the people they are hacking .
If i were to decide? even 10 years is not enough for hackers , They must be sentenced at least 20 years and uo,
So no one will follow their Path and Hacking will eventually lessen and lessen and they in future will totally Gone because of the strict rules and sentenced .

There should be a proper law for this and the consequences should be defined. When people know that they will get a life time prison they will not try to do these shameful cheap acts. Many times these hackers get away because no one is able to trace them but lucky this time we know the person who did this.

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The fact that he admits guilty makes him reduce the 3 years in prison, I think that is already enough for him to change and never do once again the things that he has done, he has the potential because of the knowledge he has so I think after being in jail, there would be a lot of company that would hire him as a security specialist. But the thing about here is that 3 years in prison wouldn't scare other criminals to stop what they are doing, they might think that it is not that too long if they got caught.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

I'm pretty sure that the Twitter hack is still fresh in our memory, this is high profile because it involves a lot of crypto exchanges like, @coinbase, @Gemini, and @binance and then celebrities, @JeffBezos, @BarackObama, @elon_musk, @JoeBiden, @BillGates, and @WarrenBuffett.

And Graham Ivan Clark was charge last year and now agreed on Tuesday to be sentenced as a youthful offender to three years in prison, + three years of probation.

Here are the official docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515610-plea-agreement-acknowledgment-of-waiver-of-rights-bc-6f018852-673e-4df1-85da-4c5629856265

https://www.sao13th.com/2021/03/prosecutors-reach-plea-agreement-in-case-of-twitter-hacker-graham-clark/ (please note that access might be block for some region due to security reasons).

What are your thoughts of the sentencing? he has served seven months already of the three years sentenced on him.

3 years wasn't Enough for His actions , 3 years imprisonment when hacking even a Former president ? this must be a criminal case as disrespect to the people they are hacking .
If i were to decide? even 10 years is not enough for hackers , They must be sentenced at least 20 years and uo,
So no one will follow their Path and Hacking will eventually lessen and lessen and they in future will totally Gone because of the strict rules and sentenced .

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Oh yeah, I remember that incidence vividly

Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

What are your thoughts of the sentencing?

I think he got away with a slap on the wrist for such a heinous crime against humanity. Anything above 10 years in the penitentiary should've been well deserved. They sentencing was a lenient one. Hackers are scammers who are also "armed" robbers turned killers. Sometimes, when one's livelihood is hacked into, it could be hacking into the only thing that keeps one alive. It could be taking away one's pension, you know. This is why I liken hackers and scammers as murderers. They too, deserve no mercy.

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With crypto scams only being given at most 3 years, nobody's going to be scared of the repercussions of this hack. Not to mention the fact that the case they are suspected of is already almost 2 years old. Justice seems to be a bit complacent on things she does not have an idea of. A penalty could be imposed, plus add more years on his prison sentence if found guilty. That should teach guys like him a lesson.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

What are your thoughts of the sentencing? he has served seven months already of the three years sentenced on him.

I think it is good that he has been given a 3 year prison for his evil act. This will also stop other hackers from doing such things as they know that if they got caught they will not be spared and treaded harshly. I would have been more better if he was asked to give certain amount of money also as a plenty.

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Quote from: ene1980 on March 20, 2021, 06:59:29 PM

Quote from: cabron on March 19, 2021, 09:58:55 PM

He is a teenager, you wouldn't want to destroy a teen's life all for one mistake he did, three years I believe is fair enough. Basically, he is a misguided teen probably parents not at home all the time. If guided properly he could even work for the government or military for his skills, I'm sure the court considers his life after prison which led them to only give him 3 years.

Age is not a measure if you are doing anything criminal and we are seeing these sort of criminal activities is fairly because they are not getting a big punishment for committing these crimes and if i remember many lost their money during these hacks. He needs to have a reality check if he was a misguided teen if not these spoiled brats will not learn their lesson.

I do not care about hacking but once people start loosing money then it is a different shit altogether.

He pleaded guilty which makes his sentence lower, if he didn't it could be more than 3 years + the 3 years probation. They understood about losing money there. They weren't talking about the coins to be returned though so its not really sure if its going to be given back but its probably not in the hands of this kid anymore, probably to the authorities. The goal is to limit more damages which this kid's life could turn upside down. 3 years is actually very long for a freeman to be put in jail, a day is like an eternity.

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Quote from: cabron on March 19, 2021, 09:58:55 PM

He is a teenager, you wouldn't want to destroy a teen's life all for one mistake he did, three years I believe is fair enough. Basically, he is a misguided teen probably parents not at home all the time. If guided properly he could even work for the government or military for his skills, I'm sure the court considers his life after prison which led them to only give him 3 years.

Age is not a measure if you are doing anything criminal and we are seeing these sort of criminal activities is fairly because they are not getting a big punishment for committing these crimes and if i remember many lost their money during these hacks. He needs to have a reality check if he was a misguided teen if not these spoiled brats will not learn their lesson.

I do not care about hacking but once people start loosing money then it is a different shit altogether.

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Quote from: Dave1 on March 19, 2021, 05:52:00 AM

And as he has served already, in just a couple of years he could be out and then probation in three years. I think that's good enough. He is still young and maybe that's one reason that the sentence is not that harsh for some of us. Institutions are trying to give him a chance to redeem himself and use his talent in good way that can help the society. Like fighting flaws in a system or try to break it, sort of becoming a white ethical hacker or something.

Such criminals like this is usually transformed to be a governmental hacker, looter, and other sort of illegal governmental usage, criminal is a very hard effect of life to fight against, it takes a great time for someone to stop been a criminal and a scammer, serving in jail for 3 years might not change anything from him, so he may rather work for government or go home prepare for more talent on how to scam intelligently without been caught next time.

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Too short sentence, but will he be reformed? After serving his sentence he might be hired immediately by companies working underground or surveillance. He might also encourage new hackers to focus on hacking high profile accounts because now they knew that his sentence is not too long.

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the punishment was worth it, not too bad either. it is only to be responsible for the actions he did that harm many parties. With a 3-year sentence that will certainly deter him, but people like Graham Ivan Clark must be instructed and recruited so that his abilities can be developed and applied to more positive activities or jobs. This teenager has great potential if directed properly.

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How much he earned for this 3 years? This was pretty interesting event

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I believe 3 years inside is too small for a high profile hack of such magnitude. He robbed a lot of people through that hacked all across the world. Although I believe the judge should tamper judgement with mercies because he pleaded guilty and showed remorse, but I don't expect it to be that lenient.

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I just really hope Twitter learnt it lesson and instead of caring about its political views or politics as a whole, hire some staff that actually know what they're doing and implement more security measures so incidents like that never happens again, even though I really doubt that.

In addition to that they're highly understaffed and most of its technical support is being maintained by bots which are less than useless when it comes to specific issues that are not that common, and when they send your case to one of the human supports it could take up to week/s for you to get a proper answer which is not optimal to say the least, specially for a social platform with ~187 million users.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

I'm pretty sure that the Twitter hack is still fresh in our memory, this is high profile because it involves a lot of crypto exchanges like, @coinbase, @Gemini, and @binance and then celebrities, @JeffBezos, @BarackObama, @elon_musk, @JoeBiden, @BillGates, and @WarrenBuffett.

And Graham Ivan Clark was charge last year and now agreed on Tuesday to be sentenced as a youthful offender to three years in prison, + three years of probation.

Here are the official docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515610-plea-agreement-acknowledgment-of-waiver-of-rights-bc-6f018852-673e-4df1-85da-4c5629856265

https://www.sao13th.com/2021/03/prosecutors-reach-plea-agreement-in-case-of-twitter-hacker-graham-clark/ (please note that access might be block for some region due to security reasons).

What are your thoughts of the sentencing? he has served seven months already of the three years sentenced on him.

In my opinion, 3 years is not small considering that he is only 18 years old. The news also says he may spend part of his sentence in a training camp, a special program of the US justice system that relies on military techniques and strict discipline to rehabilitate offenders.

And usually the practice in such cases in the United States is that after the sentence, hackers hire them as cyber security consultants in public or private institutions (provided they are really good hackers).

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on March 19, 2021, 11:08:22 PM

He basically commited scam and therefore the sentencing is justified. I hope this sentencing should reform him so that he does not commit such crimes in the future. This should also be an eye opener for those who have committed scams in the past or are planning to commit in the future, that you cannot escape the law.

I don't think so, I assume that you haven't seen the penal system in US, most first offenders that got out of jail has a high chance that they will become repeat offender. US prison system is not made to reform the criminals but to only make them more angry and smart. Only way for him to not become a repeat offender is if the kid was to get a job that specializes in coding because that skill can be used for something good, maybe the Federal government might take in this kid if he can prove his skills.

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Justice is said to have been served but the dact remains that soial media account owners should always ensure that their accounts are safe at all time as the security of their account is entirely their own responsibility. What if it had happened from another region where there is limited resources to fish out the culprits, does it mean the ahacker(s) would have walked away with people's money and still continue with their business. We should enure we all take security personal.

Quote from: Yaunfitda on March 19, 2021, 05:21:25 AM

I'm pretty sure that the Twitter hack is still fresh in our memory, this is high profile because it involves a lot of crypto exchanges like, @coinbase, @Gemini, and @binance and then celebrities, @JeffBezos, @BarackObama, @elon_musk, @JoeBiden, @BillGates, and @WarrenBuffett.

And Graham Ivan Clark was charge last year and now agreed on Tuesday to be sentenced as a youthful offender to three years in prison, + three years of probation.

Here are the official docs: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515610-plea-agreement-acknowledgment-of-waiver-of-rights-bc-6f018852-673e-4df1-85da-4c5629856265

https://www.sao13th.com/2021/03/prosecutors-reach-plea-agreement-in-case-of-twitter-hacker-graham-clark/ (please note that access might be block for some region due to security reasons).

What are your thoughts of the sentencing? he has served seven months already of the three years sentenced on him.

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Quote from: bittick on March 19, 2021, 11:24:43 PM

The punishment is fair in my opinion, if he returns the money that'd be even better. The effect of being imprisoned could already destroy his life aswell since it's gonna be hard for him to build his career. hopefully it somehow scare off any hackers from doing any such criminal activities more specifically those from 1st world countries since they are more likely to get caught seeing a more strict and "real" law enforcement.

If he will not return the money, he will more than likely use those stolen funds after he gets out. Who knows, he already transferred it to a secure place where he will be the only one who can get access to.

Quote from: Jawhead999 on March 19, 2021, 11:37:41 PM

Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on March 19, 2021, 11:05:06 PM

The amount of BTC that he gained from this hack would be worth over half a million dollars so this is not such a terrible deal but I still don't think he should do any prison time at all. Nobody forced users to send him their bitcoins and it was Twitters fault that they didn't have adequate security.

So do you think websites offering ponzi scheme or project offering unrealistic gains is not scam also? Because it's only a words and promising, they didn't forcing anyone to send him Bitcoin too. You're wrong then.

Hacking someone twitter accounts is already violations, why the hell someone need to use someone account when you can use your personal account? As you know many peoples is trusting official account, that's why some user send their Bitcoin to them without worried... because they're believing.

Yes, these MLM or ponzi schemes also need to be punished. However, if there will be no individuals or groups that will push thru the case, they can just run away freely. This is why most ponzi schemes can get away because very few individuals can dedicate their resources of running after to these scammers.

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Quote from: FinneysTrueVision on March 19, 2021, 11:05:06 PM

The amount of BTC that he gained from this hack would be worth over half a million dollars so this is not such a terrible deal but I still don't think he should do any prison time at all. Nobody forced users to send him their bitcoins and it was Twitters fault that they didn't have adequate security.

So do you think websites offering ponzi scheme or project offering unrealistic gains is not scam also? Because it's only a words and promising, they didn't forcing anyone to send him Bitcoin too. You're wrong then.

Hacking someone twitter accounts is already violations, why the hell someone need to use someone account when you can use your personal account? As you know many peoples is trusting official account, that's why some user send their Bitcoin to them without worried... because they're believing.

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