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Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Last month, Twitter experienced one of the largest and strangest hacks in the company's history. Over the course of nearly three hours, about 130 high-profile Twitter accounts—including Joe ...
Authorities say a British man and two people from Florida were behind the Twitter hack earlier this month. Authorities identified them as 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark and 22-year-old Nima Fazeli ...
A Florida teen has been arrested and accused of being the “mastermind” behind Twitter’s recent security and privacy breach. 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa, Florida is said to have posed ...
Derp on Twitter Austin Thompson , [ 1 ] known as DerpTrolling , is a hacker that was active from 2011 to 2014. [ 2 ] He largely used Twitter to coordinate distributed denial of service attacks on various high traffic websites.
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian ...
Zatko was hired by Jack Dorsey – Twitter's CEO – in November 2020 to lead the company's information security approach, after a July 2020 hack that compromised multiple high-profile accounts. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] He was terminated by the company in January 2022, [ 36 ] with Twitter claiming it was after "an assessment of how the organization was ...