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17-Year-Old Charged with Seizing Twitter Accounts of Famous People
A 17-year-old boy from Florida and two others were charged Friday with temporarily gaining control of the Twitter accounts of several famous people. The accounts belonged to former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, Tesla founder Elon Musk and others.
Florida state attorney Andrew Warren said suspect Graham Ivan Clark is "a 17-year-old kid who apparently just graduated high school." He added, "But make no mistake, this was not an ordinary 17-year-old. This was a highly sophisticated attack on a magnitude not seen before." He called Clark the "mastermind" of the attack.
Clark was arrested Friday in Tampa, Florida. He will be charged as an adult under Florida law.
Federal officials from California also charged Mason Sheppard, a 19-year-old Briton, and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida in the nationwide investigation into the attack.
Warren told reporters at a news conference Friday, "Clark hacked into the Twitter accounts of famous people and celebrities, but they were not the primary victims." He said Clark took "over $100,000 in Bitcoin in just one day." Bitcoin is a form of digital money not supported by any government but exchanged by many people online.
On July 15, the hackers took control and sent out false tweets from the accounts of Musk, Obama, and Biden. Others included Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Microsoft's Bill Gates and billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett. Entertainers Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were also hacked.
The tweets offered to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address. Over $100,000 in bitcoins were sent to the address before Twitter could disable the accounts and removed the posts.
On Thursday, Twitter said in an update that the hackers "targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack" to gain access to passwords and other credentials. The social media company said the attackers then used the access to target 130 accounts, sent Tweets from 45, accessed direct messages from 36, and downloaded data from seven others.
Florida officials said Clark is facing 30 felony charges. Twitter said it would provide a more detailed report later "given the ongoing law enforcement investigation."
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重点解析
1.ongoing 正在进行的
They have a real fear that they'll be exterminated in the ongoing civil war.
他们十分害怕自己会在持续的内战中被彻底消灭。
2.enforcement 执行
The accord also lays down guidelines for the conduct of American drug enforcement agents.
该协议也为美国毒品稽查人员的行为制订了准则。
3.investigation 调查
It's not right to make a decision without investigation and study.
没有调查研究就作出决定是不妥的。
4.attacker 袭击者
There were signs that she struggled with her attacker.
现场有她和攻击者扭打过的痕迹。
5.Twitter said in an update that the hackers "targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack" to gain access to passwords.
a small number of 少数的
A small number of firms have ceased trading.
一小部分公司已经停止贸易。
Up to now only a small number of schools have been built in this area.
到目前为止，这个地区仅仅建了少数几个学校。
6.The social media company said the attackers then used the access to target 130 accounts.
social media 社交媒体
Social media undermines this process.
社交媒体破坏了这一进程。
We have all witnessed the power of social media.
我们见证了社交媒体的实力。
参考译文
17岁少年因推特“比特币骗局”被捕
周五，佛罗里达州一名17岁男孩以及另外两人被指控短暂控制了数位名人的推特账户。这些账户有前总统巴拉克·奥巴马、前副总统乔·拜登以及特斯拉创始人埃隆·马斯克等人。
佛罗里达州检察官安德鲁·沃伦（Andrew Warren）表示，嫌犯格雷厄姆·伊文·克拉克“年仅17岁，刚刚高中毕业。”他补充说：“要知道，他可不是普通的17岁学生。这是一次前所未有的高度、复杂的攻击。”他称，克拉克是这次攻击的“策划者。”
克拉克周五在佛罗里达州坦帕市被捕。根据佛罗里达州法律，他将以成年人的标准受审。
来自加州的联邦官员在对这起攻击案件的全国性调查中，还指控了佛罗里达州奥兰多市一名19岁的英国人梅森·谢帕德（Mason Sheppard）以及22岁的尼玛·法泽利（Nima Fazeli）。
沃伦在周五的新闻发布会上对记者表示：“克拉克入侵了名人的推特账户，但是这些名人并非受害者。”他说，克拉克仅一天内就将价值超过10万美元的比特币收入囊中。比特币是一种不受任何政府支持的数字货币，但是很多人在网上进行交易。
7月15日，黑客控制了马斯克、奥巴马以及拜登的推特账户，并发布了虚假的推文。其他人还包括亚马逊公司的杰夫·贝佐斯、微软公司的比尔·盖茨以及亿万富豪迈克尔·布隆伯格和沃伦·巴菲特。娱乐明星坎耶·韦斯特和他的妻子金·卡戴珊的账户也被入侵。
这些推文声称，向匿名比特币地址转账1000美元，将得到2000美元的回报。在推特禁用这些账户并删除推文之前，已有价值超过10万美元的比特币被转往该比特币地址。
周四，推特在最新的声明中表示，黑客“通过电话鱼叉式网络钓鱼攻击少数员工”，以获得有权限进入的密码和其它凭证。这家社交媒体公司表示，攻击者随后利用该权限锁定了130个账户，从45个账户上发布了推文，访问了36人的私信，并下载了另外7个账户的数据。
佛罗里达州官员表示，克拉克面临30项重罪指控。推特公司表示，“鉴于正在进行的执法调查”，该公司稍后会公布更详细的报告。
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