Security News > 2020 > August > Porn Video Interrupts US Court Hearing for Accused Twitter Hacker
A court hearing held via Zoom for a US teenager accused of masterminding a stunning hack of Twitter was interrupted Wednesday with rap music and porn, a newspaper reported.
The purpose of the hearing was to discuss reducing bail terms set for the 17 year old Tampa resident arrested last Friday over the hack last month of the accounts of major US celebrities.
Hackers accessed dozens of Twitter accounts of people such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk, after gaining access to the system with an attack that tricked a handful of employees into giving up their credentials.
Bail for the 17 year old was set for $725,000 and in the hearing his lawyers were seeking to reduce it.
After the judge suspended the hearing, and eventually resumed it, hackers went at it again - with interruptions that disguised their user names as organizations such as CNN and BBC. In the end, judge Nash ruled against reducing the youth's bail.
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