Despite the new intrusions repeated hacker, then the judge could rule against the reduction of the deposit requested by the attorneys for the young man of 17 years.
A hearing by teleconference of the U.s. 17-year-old accused of being the mastermind of the hacking in mid-July of Twitter accounts of celebrities has been interrupted Wednesday by a pornographic video, screams, and rap music, report of the american media.
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Organized on the Zoom, it was to discuss the deposit of 725 000 dollars for the residents of Tampa, Florida, who had pleaded not guilty the day before the spectacular attack against the social network.
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The interruptions were so frequent that the judge of the local court before which the teenager appeared virtually was forced to temporarily suspend the hearing, according to the newspaper Tampa Bay Times. It resumed shortly after and, despite the new intrusions repeated hackers using pseudonyms, such as “CNN” or “BBC”, the judge was able to rule against the reduction of the deposit requested by the attorneys for the young man.
130 hacked accounts
This last was arrested Friday with two young people of 19 and 22 years of age, one of whom is resident in the United Kingdom, and is charged notably of electronic fraud. The investigators consider it as the brain of the cyber attack that would have helped raise more than $ 100,000 in crypto-currency. The pirates have, according to Twitter, targeted a handful of employees via an operation of phishing by phone, in order to obtain their credentials.
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They were then attacked 130 accounts, including those of the former american president, Barack Obama, the democratic candidate for the presidential Joe Biden and founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Bill Gates, or Tesla, Elon Musk. From these accounts, they sent messages aguicheurs encouraging subscribers to send bitcoins, a crypto-currency, so-called, in exchange for double the amount sent. The attack has undermined the image of Twitter and revived the debate on computer security within three months of the us presidential election.
