NBC晚间新闻 三人涉嫌黑客攻击推特

Tonight authorities have charged three suspects in connection with the unprecedented¹ hack² of some of twitter's most famous users. Florida state officials billing 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark from Tampa as the mastermind, allegedly working with a nineteen-year-old from the U.K known as chaewon and a 22-year-old Floridian called Rolex. I want to say to would-be offenders³, break the law and we will find you. All three suspects charged in stealing access to the accounts of former president Barack Obama, former vice⁴ president Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk⁵ and Bill Gates, using them to ask people to send bitcoin and promising⁶ to double their money, scamming them out of over a hundred thousand dollars.

Twitter says the scam targeted a small number of employees by phone, enabling hackers⁷ to access celebrity⁸ accounts and direct messages. Clark will be charged as an adult, facing 30 state felonies. Twitter today saying we appreciate the swift actions of law enforcement and will continue to cooperate. Increasingly we rely on platforms like twitter to receive news and other information that is important to our lives. The twitter vip hack undermines public confidence in those information platforms. And with the presidential election less than 100 days away, voters are getting their information on social media. Now more than ever, especially without rallies or in-person campaign stops during this pandemic.

今晚，当局已经起诉了三位嫌疑人，他们涉嫌对一些推特最有名的用户进行前所未有的黑客攻击。佛罗里达州官员将坦帕市17岁的格雷厄姆·伊万·克拉克列为主谋，据称他与一名叫金彩元的来自英国的19岁少年和一名叫劳力士的22岁的佛罗里达人是同伙。我想对那些想触犯法律的人说，如果你触犯了法律，我们就会找到你。这三名嫌疑人都被指控窃取了前总统奥巴马，前副总统拜登，杰夫·贝索斯，伊隆·马斯克和比尔·盖茨的账户，使用它们让人们发送比特币，并承诺让他们的钱翻倍，骗了他们十万多美元。推特表示，该骗局通过电话锁定了一小部分员工，使黑客能够访问名人账户和私聊信息。克拉克将以成年人的身份被起诉，面临30项州重罪。推特今天表示，我们感谢执法部门的迅速行动，并将继续合作。我们越来越多地依赖像推特这样的平台来获取新闻和其他对我们生活很重要的信息。推特重要人物黑客事件削弱了公众对这些信息平台的信心。距离总统大选还有不到100天的时间，选民们正在社交媒体上获得了他们的信息。现在比以往任何时候都要多，尤其是在疫情期间没有集会或竞选活动的情况下。

1 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

2 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

3 offenders   

n.冒犯者( offender的名词复数 )；犯规者；罪犯；妨害…的人（或事物）

参考例句：

• Long prison sentences can be a very effective deterrent for offenders. 判处长期徒刑可对违法者起到强有力的威慑作用。
• Purposeful work is an important part of the regime for young offenders. 使从事有意义的劳动是管理少年犯的重要方法。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 musk   

n.麝香, 能发出麝香的各种各样的植物，香猫

参考例句：

• Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
• She scented her clothes with musk.她用麝香使衣服充满了香味。

6 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

7 hackers   

n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”

参考例句：

• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网

8 celebrity   

n.名人，名流；著名，名声，名望

参考例句：

• Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
• He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。