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I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence

(credit: Bob Jagendorf) A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last year’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange for a three-year sentence, it was widely reported. Authorities said that Graham Ivan Clark, now 18, and two other men used social […]

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Ticketmaster pays $10 million criminal fine for hacking a rival company

(credit: Pixy) Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. The fine, which is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered with federal prosecutors, resolves criminal charges filed last week in federal court in […]