Tampa, 17, was arrested on Friday along with two others. (Representative)
Washington:
The alleged teenage mastermind of a massive Twitter hack pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to allegations he hijacked celebrity accounts to defraud people over $ 100,000 into a cryptocurrency scheme.
The 17-year-old Tampa, Florida resident pleaded not guilty in state court in a short hearing conducted by video conference, according to the Tampa Bay Times newspaper.
He was arrested on Friday along with two other people, aged 19 and 22, one of whom lives in Britain, and has been charged with cyber fraud.
Investigators saw the 17-year-old as the mastermind behind the mid-July cyberattack that rocked Twitter.
Hackers who gained access to dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts gained access to the system through an attack that caused a handful of employees to give up their credentials, according to a company update.
The hackers “targeted a small number of employees via a phone phishing attack,” according to a statement from Twitter Support.
Elon Musk’s massive user hack to Joe Biden affected at least 130 accounts, with tweets posted by the thieves tricking people into sending $ 100,000 in Bitcoin, supposedly in exchange for double the amount. sent.
Official accounts from Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and others have also been affected.
The incident raised concerns about the security of the platform increasingly used for political and public affairs conversations, particularly in the run-up to the November US presidential election.
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