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July 31, 2020

Three Charged in July 15 Twitter Compromise

This post was originally published on this siteThree individuals have been charged for their alleged roles in the July 15 hack on Twitter, an incident that resulted in Twitter profiles for some of the world’s most recognizable celebrities, executives and public figures sending out tweets advertising a bitcoin scam. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Twitter account on the afternoon of July 15. Nima “Rolex” Fazeli, a 22-year-old from Orlando, Fla., was charged in a criminal complaint in Northern California with aiding and abetting intentional access to a protected computer. Mason “Chaewon” Sheppard, a 19-year-old from Bognor Regis, U.K., also was charged […]