![]() “This was not an ordinary 17-year-old,” Mr. Clark was skilled enough to go unnoticed inside Twitter’s network, said Andrew Warren, the Florida state attorney handling the case. Documents released on Friday do not provide the real identity of Kirk, but they suggest that it was Mr. ![]() Prosecutors said the two appeared to have aided the central figure in the attack, who went by the name Kirk. Two other people, Mason John Sheppard, 19, of the United Kingdom, and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Fla., were accused of helping Mr. ![]() He faces 30 felony charges in the hack, including fraud, and is being charged as an adult. Graham Ivan Clark was arrested in his Tampa apartment, where he lived by himself, early Friday, state officials said. While some initially thought the hack was the work of professionals, it turns out the “mastermind” of one of the most high-profile hacks in recent years was a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Florida, the authorities said on Friday. They, and dozens of others, were being hacked, and Twitter appeared powerless to stop it. One by one, the celebrity Twitter accounts posted the same strange message: Send Bitcoin and they would send back double your money. ![]()
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