Graham Ivan Clark faces a relatively short time in a juvenile facility due to him being sentenced under Florida’s Youthful Offender Act, which limits penalties for felons under age 21.
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The Florida teenager who hacked Twitter last year has been sentenced to three years in jail. On Tuesday, state prosecutors in Florida announced Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, entered a plea agreement to serve time in a juvenile facility, along with three years of probation. Last July, Clark was arrested for successfully hijacking Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities including Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, and Barack Obama in order to instigate a Bitcoin scam. Graham Ivan Clark (Credit: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) To pull off the hack, Clark managed to phish several Twitter employees into giving up access to the company’s internal tools, which can be used to reset and change a password for an account.
