One of the Twitter hackers indicted

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One of the wannabe thugs that hacked Twitter last year was indicted. It appears that the Twitter hack was his mildest of crimes.

But most of the coverage seems to have overlooked the far more sinister criminal charges in the indictment, which involve an underground scene wherein young men turn to extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, death threats and physical attacks — all in a frenzied effort to seize control over social media accounts.

… and swatting.

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