The investigation of an unprecedented Twitter hack earlier this summer produced a new suspect: a 16-year-old from Massachusetts, according to a new report from The New York Times. This new suspect would be the youngest of a group of conspirators spanning the United States and the United Kingdom, a group now comprising four individuals who jointly planned and then took into account the takeovers of dozens of high-profile Twitter users to promote a bitcoin scam.

It's still unknown the perpetrators had full oversight of internal Twitter networks, and how exactly they obtained access through somehow elusive company staff, but the alleged mastermind of the hack is suspected to be 17-year-old Floridian Graham Ivan Clark, who was charged as an adult with 30 felonies. The others include 19-year-old Mason John Sheppard of the UK and 22-year-old Nima Fazeli of Orlando , Florida.

Today, the Times claims that a third male, a Massachusetts youth, may also have been involved in organizing the attack, and that both the unidentified teen and Clark were collectively responsible for uploading tweets to accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, and others. This is an important detail, because Clark was believed to have been the only one in the group to have used internal tools.

Nothing more is known about the Massachusetts boy, other than that he performed a form of social engineering hack named "vishing," in which the perpetrator phishes tech company workers over the phone while impersonating contractors to obtain login certificates for critical programs. He then moved to SIM swapping and other forms of hacking, where he linked up with Clark online, and also reportedly participated in a high-profile intrusion of GoDaddy 's domain provider earlier this year.

The NYT report also notes how teens have become involved in OGusers.com, an online marketplace that facilitates the sale of rare online handles and where Twitter hacking conspirators are believed to have met before planning to move to Discord and other platforms.