Shout out to everyone who said it was a nation state lol https://twitter.com/WFLARyan/status/1289258997933998080

Three individuals charged total:
17yo from Tampa Florida
22yo of Orlando Florida
19yo of Bognor Regis, UK https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-individuals-charged-alleged-roles-twitter-hack

Feds also got a search warrant for a fourth juvenile (in California, so not Florida teen) referenced in the indictments; search warrant there executed July 21.

So TLDR: looks like the main Florida teen social-engineers Twitter employees over the phone to access their internal admin tools; tries to monetize it by "selling accounts" via OGusers and discord; the others bought accounts or acted as resellers.

They compromised 130 accounts, set up a whole fake website, and broadcast out their scam to literally millions of Twitter viewers. And for all that, just 415 or so people fell for it, losing an average of ~$250 each, netting themselves ~$117k of illicit funds

Minus the $30k or so it cost them to buy those accounts from Florida teen.

And crime investigated by:
* FBI SF Division
* IRS-Criminal Cyber Unit
* US Secret Service (SF & HQ)
* Santa Clara County Sheriff REACT TF
* Chainalysis
* Excygent
* Florida Dept of Law Enforcement

So, lol, talk about attracting serious heat for their $70k worth of hot BTC.