Reported by several major news sources last month, a Florida teen was convicted in late July for taking part in a series of Twitter hacks, the likes of which saw Joe Biden, Kanye West, Elon Musk, and other major celebrity accounts unwittingly partake in ashady, large-scale bitcoin scam. The teen managed to access the highly influential Twitter members' details by tricking a Twitter employee into giving him access to the site’s Customer Service Portal, using his tech-based skills to gain access to and swindle each of the celebrity’s large followings.

As it turns out, however, this isn’tthe Twitter hacker’s only history with online scams. An in-depth report from the New York Times actually connected the young hacker to a series of shadyMinecraftscams from back in 2016, with the teen using a growing YouTube following to swindle fellow players into paying him large sums of money for fake in-game items and user names.

According to those who encountered the hacker during this time, he went by “Open” or “OpenHFC,” and built a fairly large following around playing Hardcore Factions inMinecraft. Since starting the channel, the hacker began to grow quite a reputation for hustling fellow players and even fellow small YouTubers, with some even making videos on their strange experiences with him. It seems the hacker would often promise to sell MineCon capes or even his username to fans, before accepting their transactions and immediately ghosting them without a trace.

The New York Times even managed to get in contact with one of his victims, with Nick Jerome recounting a story in which the hacker accepted $100 from him back in 2016 with the promise of giving him his username. Of course, that never happened. “I was just kind of a dumb teenager, and looking back, there’s no way I should have ever done this,” Jerome told the publication when asked about the scam, stating “why should I ever have trusted this dude?” MeeZoid, aMinecraftYouTuberwho is still a major part of the community to this day, even published a video about the hacker back in 2016.

All in all, it seems the hacker’s shady scams onMinecraftevolved into something much darker over the years, with the hacker now charged of 30 felony counts. For those who didn’t see it,the hack was noted as being one of the biggest breaches of security in Twitter history, with several of the verified accounts involved being locked out as he and two other hackers instructed followers to pay thousands into the bitcoin scam.

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