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Bail in Twitter hack: $725,000. Tampa teen’s assets: $3 million in Bitcoin

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Bail in Twitter hack: $725,000. Tampa teen’s assets: $3 million in Bitcoin
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TAMPA — The teen accused of masterminding the Twitter hack of the accounts of celebrities and major companies to in an illicit attempt to obtain Bitcoin had his bail set on Saturday:

It is $725,000.

But the defense attorney for 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark said his client has more than $3 million worth of Bitcoin.

His bail is six times what he’s accused of stealing last month through an elaborate scheme that authorities say unfolded online on July 15. It involved manipulating Twitter employees, taking control of celebrity and company Twitter accounts and reaping $117,000 in the hard-to-track cryptocurrency within a matter of hours.

Authorities say the Tampa teen is the “mastermind” of the plot, in which he used prominent Twitter accounts including former Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kim Kardashian to solicit for Bitcoin. When he made his first court appearance Saturday, authorities described in greater detail how they say he pulled it off.

Clark was in the county jail, but appeared on a video screen in a small courtroom in front of County Judge Joelle Ann Ober inside the Hillsborough County Courthouse Annex building.

He faces state charges because he is a juvenile, federal authorities say, and was held without bail when he was arrested Friday. Two others involved in the scheme face federal charges in California.

Under Florida law, it would take 10 percent of the bail set Saturday — $72,500 — to free Clark pending trial.

Related: Tampa teen arrested in hack of Twitter accounts of Obama, Bill Gates, Kanye West and others
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, of Tampa, made his first appearance in court on Saturday after he was arrested on charges that he hacked famous Twitter accounts. His bail was set at $750,000. [ JOSH SOLOMON | Times ]

Both sides argued over what would be an appropriate amount of bail for a 17-year-old facing 30 criminal charges.

Hillsborough Assistant State Attorney Darrell Dirks called Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent Corey Monaghan to testify.

The agent said Clark hired 22-year-old Nima Fazeli of Orlando and 19-year-old Mason Sheppard of the United Kingdom “as proxies” to “manipulate” Twitter employees into giving up access to the company’s system. He declined to specify how Fazeli and Sheppard, who face federal charges in the Northern District of California, manipulated employees.

Twitter on Thursday updated a blog post it published after the scheme played out, calling the hack of its systems “social engineering” that targeted “a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack” to obtain their credentials and access to Twitter’s systems.

“This attack relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to our internal systems,” the company wrote.

The New York Times reported in July that the hacker accessed Twitter’s internal Slack messaging system and gained control of special tools that could be used to…



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