Security News > 2020 > July > Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors

The miscreants also managed to access the Twitter Direct Messages in 36 accounts, and to download Twitter account data for seven accounts.

"Increasingly we rely on platforms like Twitter to receive news and other information that is important to our lives," said US Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson in the video statement below.

"The Twitter VIP hack undermines public confidence in those information platforms."

"There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the Twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence," he said in a statement.

The two complaints mention unidentified Discord user "Kirk#5270" who is said to have brokered access to the hacked Twitter accounts and is presumably the 17-year-old "Mastermind" arrested in Tampa.

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