{"id":39055,"date":"2021-03-17T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39055"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:43:57","slug":"eighteen-year-old-twitter-hacker-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-and-three-years-of-supervised-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/eighteen-year-old-twitter-hacker-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-and-three-years-of-supervised-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen-year-old Twitter hacker sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graham Clarke, who orchestrated a major Twitter hack in July 2020, will serve three years in prison followed by a three-year period of supervised release after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Tampa Bay Times<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clarke’s lawyers filed his plea of guilty with the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

His youth at the time allowed the hacker to anticipate a ‘youthful offender’ status and avoid the minimum 10-year sentence that can accompany such offences for adults. The sentence will stand unless there are violations during the supervised release.<\/span><\/p>\n

The terms of the plea agreement prohibit Clarke from using a computer without permission and under supervision by law enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The defendant’s lawyers confirmed that he returned $117,000 in Bitcoin obtained during the fake distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n

As reported, on August 5 Clarke was charged with 30 counts<\/span><\/a>, including organised fraud, misuse of personal data and unauthorized access to others’ devices. At that time it was reported that he faced up to 200 years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clarke and two accomplices carried out a large attack on Twitter on the night of July 16. They hacked the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other businesspeople and celebrities and posted messages about a fake distribution of 5,000 BTC.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Graham Clarke’s wallets there were<\/span><\/a> more than $3 million in Bitcoin stored. The defense says the funds are legitimately sourced, but prosecutors have doubts on this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Graham Clarke, who orchestrated the July 2020 Twitter hack, will serve three years in prison with a subsequent three-year period of supervised release following a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Graham Clarke, the Twitter hacker, will serve three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,40],"class_list":["post-39055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Graham Clarke, the Twitter hacker, will serve three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39057,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39055\/revisions\/39057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}