Twitter Hackers Arrested! [Updated]

[joinfree]

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

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[uneng]

But wasn't bitcoin the perfect criminal's currency because it's untrackable?
Another fake news dismounted. I want to see now what media and crypto haters will say about it. Actually the hackers were taken much faster than in some cases which involved fiat instead of bitcoins. It's a clear sign to hackers and another kinds of scammers they aren't safe for using crypto currency!

[Jating]

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

If the kid is really that smart, then he can enter a plea bargain, specially if that offer is in that table coming from the prosecutor and in turn reveal how he hacked where is the money now etc. And be in community service + probation for three years out of the prison.

And then work with US agencies and be the good guy next time around. He could have a career as a security experts, so there are a lot of options for him not to waste that talent and used it for good measures.

[Zuilhsa]

At 17 years of age what he has done is very big. Along with him two more has been arrested, anyhow this is a group execution. Really hard to breach by a single person. When one is concentrating into the process of hacking, he needs alternate plans to make it successful. This might have been done by the fellow companions. Anyhow government has took it seriously, else this guys could've never been caught this short.

[finaleshot2016]

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

I feel pity on him if he will only end his life in jail. I hope they can work around here and just hire him for other vital projects. He's too young to just spend his entire life in prison. He can still change and do something different for his life. Let's see what will be the verdict on him and his accessories.

Definitely the government or huge companies will hire him for what he has done. Yeah, he is too young but he have done something that isn't should be done by a 17 years old so he should face those consequences. They filed a lot of cases to him because he targeted strong and high-profile persons' accounts.

I was reading the news and I was wondering why a 17 year old can be charged in a case like this even if he is a minor and article in Verge clarified that the law in Florida allows to be charged and possible get prison sentence even if you are a minor on financial fraud cases. I think this minor isn't really an ordinary person since he can do what he did but the wrong thing he done is assume that he can get away with this just for being a minor. Plus finding accomplices with him over the age of 18 just only make him look like he really planned the hack. But since this is just the early stages on the discoveries I doubt we have seen everything and there might really be a real mastermind here controlling these kids.

Absolutely, no one could possibly learn how to hack accounts by just browsing on the internet or watching videos, It is a group of hackers and he learned from it. But some hacker groups wouldn't do such things like this and I bet that white hackers are already looking some of them.

[Blank-Head]

If the master mind boy of Twitter hacking got arrested then I think the funds what had been stolen can recover easily.
Is this will happen actually? What you think? It should be recovered because who have funds got arrested if suspect is true.

[Yogee]

But wasn't bitcoin the perfect criminal's currency because it's untrackable?
Another fake news dismounted. I want to see now what media and crypto haters will say about it. Actually the hackers were taken much faster than in some cases which involved fiat instead of bitcoins. It's a clear sign to hackers and another kinds of scammers they aren't safe for using crypto currency!

If you want to know how they were tracked, read this https://www.wired.com/story/how-alleged-twitter-hackers-got-caught-bitcoin/ (credit to suchmoon)

Basically no Tor and no mixer, used Coinbase, etc. And it wasn't really the blockchain that did them in. They started the scheme basically in public on some forum and on Discord and the forum had been hacked in the past so all account e-mails, IPs, etc were conveniently available to the FBI. The funny thing is they made like 30 grand on low-key Twitter account theft and nobody cared. Probably would have made more if they just stayed under radar.

[NotATether]

oh please, there are equally better ethical hackers out there so let's not make it seem like this guy is a genius. What they did was wrong and must be punished severely for it. This should go a long way to server to detter other illegal hackers from hatching such plan and rather use their talent for something good.

I don't think these hackers are particularly smart, people can make themselves look like expert hackers by using some graphical program, but it doesn't change the fact that they know very little about the science of hacking.

MalwareTech is an example of a guy who actually knew his way around things.

[thesmallgod]

I just wonder why this news is hiding here not in the public, I need more verification for such an hack that shook one of the top social media and most influential person in the world, while the news of the apprehension is on few papers. I believe such intelligent kid does not get as much pay as those protecting twitter, as much as the boy could be jailed twitter need to found out other loopholes in their project, more also the scam address should be refunded.

The news will start somewhere and start to disseminate to every nook and cranny. This is a piece of fresh news and you don't expect it to have gotten all over everywhere within a short period of time. Just give a few days and you will be surprised to read more about the story. I came across it as headline stories on twitter this morning and it will just be a matter of time before it keeps trending because that twitter hacks really shocked the globe and everyone including will like to know how the boy got to hack those influential people twitter page

[sunsilk]

I never thought that it's been done by a teenager. Who have thought of that? I guess no one. I thought that this was made by a group of hackers that have been doing this for a long time.

If the master mind boy of Twitter hacking got arrested then I think the funds what had been stolen can recover easily.
Is this will happen actually? What you think? It should be recovered because who have funds got arrested if suspect is true.

It's possible to retrieve the funds and can be recovered if the boy returns it at his own will or mandated, I don't know the actual procedure on this matter. But if he just shut his mouth and talks not about it, they can't do anything with it. Looking positively, if the funds have been recovered, we will never know if the person assigned will be honest in returning those to the victims. Although, I'm wishing all the best that the funds will be returned gradually to all of those affected people.

[DoubleEdgeEX]

Jack Dorsey should hire that kid! Putting him behind bars would be a waste, but on the flipside that didn´t stop them to incarcerate other smart people. I doubt a big media coverage, it would just depict Twitter as not safe as people could expect additional security flaws. I´m curious how they try to get the other kid that resides in the UK.

[Slow death]

I hope he will make a deal and help the United States win the war against China.
Otherwise, America will have problems as a super villain.  

and what prevented the hacker from accepting money from the Chinese? this is the problem of dealing with hackers who invade other people's things for money, you can never trust and compromise with them

I wonder whether Justin Sun would really be good on his words, and to whom would he give the bounty anyways?  

he is very intelligent and knew that in this case many people would be involved and He took advantage to do marketing

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence. This is identity theft of an extremely serious degree, and could even be considered an act of terrorism considering he exfilitrated the personal data of presidents, ex presidents and members of congress.

There is a 100% chance that they are going to make an example of this kid, I'm expecting 5-10 years in prison at the very least.

I don't know the laws of the USA but I think he can get more than 13 years in prison

[Janation]

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

At that age, it is really a great skill.

But still, he should not be wasting that skill and knowledge with identity theft, hacking and multiple frauds. He can do better and now he will be facing I think more or less than a decade in jail. That is years and years of wasted time he can use to develop his skill and use it for good.

[joseafonso123az]

This kids have great knowledge to conduct this level of hacking. Also being a platform as Twitter, we would think that they are advancing towards security, but there is always someone that is more clever.
That said, Money is the root of this problem. If they are the ones who did it, they will repent the action, because they hacked big accounts and so, they will probably lose their teen years in jail. They could have used this knowledge for ethical hacking, instead of this!

[panganib999]

Seriously? Those kids are really that incredible to the extent that they have done such big crime that involves too many cases because of what they have done on hacking well-known personalities accounts and done money laundering. But I still doubt that they are only the ones who have do it all by themselves. Maybe they were just the frontal to hide the biggest names behind the Twitter hack. But if they really did that all alone, they are surprisingly unbelievable to have such high knowledge about hacking because they have carried out such crime that you can only imagine to be done by nerds that have lots of experiences in the field of hacking.

They are still at minor ages but they have already done such big crime. But those were still allegations and under deep investigation so probably as days will pass by, maybe the real ones will be found. I just cannot believe that they can do it if I would be basing on their ages but if they really did it, then their adulthood will be messed up for they will sure to get sentenced behind the bars.

[maydna]

I am sure he is not working alone because that will need more hackers to hack twitter. But if he has high skills in programming, I think he can work alone because he can be able to break the security, and he can enter to the database. But I am amazed that finally twitter hacker arrested, and that hacker is a young boy who can hack twitter account. But if he doesn't work alone, I am not surprised to see that they can break the security with many people who have skills in language programming.

[coolcoinz]

Well, I can't imagine at that age that kid was expert on hacking, --that's an absolutely ^{[extra ordernary]} kid that we don't know why he becomes that famous hacker. That's just only a kid, how much more if that kid becomes mature I don't know how many becomes a victim of him. Indeed, that kid wasn't alone in this scam operation. Perhaps they are a group and maybe they target those big-time profiles at once in a time.
I have been researched what that kid his face looks like but I did not find it.

Have you ever heard of Kevin Mitnick?

At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering and dumpster diving[15] to bypass the punch card system used in the Los Angeles bus system. After he convinced a bus driver to tell him where he could buy his own ticket punch for "a school project", he was able to ride any bus in the greater LA area using unused transfer slips he found in a dumpster next to the bus company garage. Social engineering later became his primary method of obtaining information, including usernames and passwords and modem phone numbers.[16]

Mitnick first gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979, at 16, when a friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system that Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) used for developing its RSTS/E operating system software.[17] He broke into DEC's computer network and copied the company's software, a crime for which he was charged and convicted in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Mitnick hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Mitnick fled, becoming a fugitive for two and a half years.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mitnick gained unauthorized access to dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Mitnick also intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into and read private e-mails.

Some kids are just smart. The only problem is they're going to make an example out of him to scare off possible followers and copycats.

[tsaroz]

This could be true but more childish than these people is the security of twitter. And with the history of Kevin Mitnick, probably he social engineered someone inside twitter to give him away sensitive information about users. And twitter too confirmed that they stored users password in plain text on log files. Glad it was some individuals gaining access to social profile, if organized hacking groups had a similar access, they could have created much more havoc or just could have used them to siphon internal data.

[plvbob0070]

Rather than being an expert or genius in that field at a young age, I'm more concerned about the fact that at that young age, he decided to hack and scam other people for money, knowing the consequences. He's still a minor and living by himself, I guess the lack of guidance from his parents is also a factor why he was able to do it.

But at least, the hackers got caught. They are smart enough to hack big accounts, so they probably know the consequences of their actions. Even if he's still a minor, he should be responsible for it. A good job for the part of the authorities for finding them without taking a long time.

[Betwrong]

Damn dude.

This kid is going to get one hefty sentence.

I will not be surprised if he is going to be working under serious guide to unlock some other applications. The guy brain is too hot to be wasted just like that.

In my opinion you are absolutely right, but unfortunately it is very likely that he will be imprisoned for many years, which will make a real criminal from a misguided kid. Almost all of us make a lot of mistakes at a young age. Then most of us change our ways, and become normal people. It is very unfortunate to be thrown in jail before that. I pity this kid.