Celebrity Twitter hijacking 17-year-old boy prosecuted three people in the United States and Britain August 1 10:43
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice and others announced that they had prosecuted three people, including a 17-year-old boy, for suspicion of communication fraud in a hacking case where the accounts of American celebrities and Twitter of a large company were hijacked.
This incident was posted on the 15th of last month in which an official account of a celebrity in the United States and Twitter of a large corporation was hijacked by someone and a sentence was posted to send bitcoins of virtual currency = "cryptographic assets".
The hacked accounts include those of former President Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, which were being investigated by the FBI.
The U.S. Department of Justice and others announced in a statement yesterday that three young people aged 17 to 22 living in Southern Florida and England were involved in the case and sued for suspicion of communication fraud.
According to the announcement, the three people are actually cheating bitcoin through hacking and the damage is 100,000 dollars, which is equivalent to about 10 million yen in Japanese yen.
The incident has shaken the credibility of Twitter, which has become the world's information infrastructure, and Twitter is conducting further security investigations and detailed investigation into the incident.