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On Friday Graham Ivan Clark was charged withal with two others for the most serious drudge in Twitter's history, where numerous high-profile accounts including those of Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and Currency Gates were taken over to promotion a bitcoin scam. In a new investigation, The New York Times has delved into Clark's history, which reportedly escalated from spoiled Minecraft scams into a drudge accordingly big that some have dubbed it a all-around security crisis.

Here's how it all began, as professed by the NYT:

Millions of teenagers comedy the same video games and interact in the same online forums as Mr. Clark. However what emerges in interviews with over-and-above than a dozen people who palpate him, withal with successful documents, online juridical assignment and whimsical media archives, is simply a picture of a adolescence who had a strained remunerate with his family and who spent numerous of his life online contenting skilled at convincing people to harmony him money, photos and information.

In 2016, one Minecraft rookie says Clark offered to shovel him a digital raincoat for $50 which he never delivered. On liberty occasion he reportedly offered to shovel his Minecraft username, "Open," before blocking the rookie that sent him $100 for it. However soon, The New York Times reports that Clark shuffled on from Minecraft into the world of SIM-swapping and cryptocurrencies. He's thought to have joined, and been succedent bootlegged from OGUsers, a forum that's become infamous for its marketplace where users can buy and shovel high-value whimsical media handles.

Prior to the Cheep hack, Clark's most solemn shindy with authorities is said to have taken place in 2019, back a username reportedly associated with Clark was united to the annexation of 164 Bitcoins (worth substantially $856,000 at the time) from a Silicon Valley investor. 100 Bitcoins were latterly seized from Clark by the Technical Service. One of his friends, James Xio, told the NYT that the incident had shaken Clark.

Mr. Xio, who became conterminous hobnob with Mr. Clark, said the April shindy with the Technical Stead thrown Mr. Clark. "He knew he was intuitional a second chance," Mr. Xio said. "And he wanted to assignment on concreteness as legitimate as possible."

If Florida prosecutors are to be believed, however, Clark's bloviate to go straight didn't aftermost long. The 17-year old is now concreteness charged as an grown (the state attorney-at-law has said he's "not an received 17-year old") with 30 felonies.

The New York Times' report is simply a glamorous peekaboo at a teenager on the glace slope of internet mischief, and it's able-bodied account a realize in its entirety.