Security News > 2021 > March > Teenage Twitter hijacker gets three years in the clink over celeb Bitcoin scamming

Graham Ivan Clark, part of the crew that hijacked around 130 high-profile Twitter accounts and used them to collect cryptocurrency, has been sentenced to three years in prison for his part in the scam.

On July 15 last year around 130 Twitter accounts from celebs like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Uber, and former president Barack Obama began displaying messages asking for Bitcoin to be sent to a wallet, whereupon the amount would be doubled and returned.

Microsoft's Azure outage last Monday is still continuing to cause ripple effects, with users reporting large numbers of files missing from OneDrive.

One user reported folders on OneDrive staying intact while all the files were missing, and thought a new employee had made a mistake.

"Users can still access impacted files online as they are unaffected by this issue," it said.

"Users may have received notifications that their files have been deleted, seen a message from OneDrive stating 'Remove files from all locations,' or may have seen that their files were being removed from their synced folders. Subsequent file syncs restore the files to the appropriate local folders. Impacted users can manually initiate a resync to resolve the problem by restarting their machine or an automatic resync will occur within 24 hours."

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