Graham Clark, the teenage hacker from Florida who pulled off the massive Twitter Bitcoin scam last year, has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty.
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He will also serve three years of probation after the end of his term.
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As reported by U.Today, the Twitter accounts of some of the most influential individuals on the planet, including Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Kim Kardashian, were hijacked last July to promote a Bitcoin scam after the social network's employee fell victim to a social engineering attack masterminded by Clark.
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The not-so-sophisticated teenager got arrested in a couple of weeks following the hack as a result of a joint investigation by U.S. federal agencies.
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