As per the US Department of Justice, the scam bitcoin account that was mentioned in the fraudulent tweets got transfers worth over $100,000.
The massive Twitter hack of July 15 – in which the accounts of high-profile people such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were hacked to promote a Bitcoin scam – has finally led to the first series of arrests. Among them, a 17-year old teen named Graham Ivan Clark from Tampa (Florida) has been apprehended by the authorities as ‘mastermind’ behind the hack that was accomplished using a phone spear phishing attack.
