At the time, O’Connor claimed, “They can come to arrest me. I would laugh at them. I haven’t done anything,” he told the Times.
Three arrested within weeks of hack
Within a few weeks of the Twitter hack, 3 of the hacker gang were charged.
Nima (Rolex) Fazeli, 22-year-old was charged with a criminal complaint in Northern California. And charges include aiding intentional access to a protected computer.
Mason (Chaewon) Sheppard, was charged in California. And the charges include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and unauthorized access to a computer.
Graham Ivan Clark, the “teenage mastermind” of the entire plan, was arrested in July last year. He was hit with 30 felony charges, including “organized fraud, communications fraud, one count of fraudulent use of personal information with over $100,000 or 30 or more victims, 10 counts of fraudulent use of personal information and one count of access to a computer or electronic device without authority.”
Clark,17, was charged as an adult. And has been sentenced to three years in prison.
