Hacker monitoring Elon Musk’s private jet decided to “stalk” other billionaires to make money, Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos were all targeted

Recently, Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old hacker who used to set up a Twitter account to track Elon Musk’s private jet, decided to expand his “scale of operations” and “stalk” his entire travel route. many other famous billionaires. Sweeney said he is developing an application called Ground Control to implement this plan, targeting big names like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.

Sweeney’s purpose is simple and clear: Money. He hoped to be able to earn extra income from Ground Control. And that’s not far-fetched. Some companies such as Nasdaq Data Link have long pursued this model and profited from providing private and corporate aviation data to their customers who want a wealth of business intelligence. important as soon as possible.

Sharing with Bloomberg, the 19-year-old hacker, now a student at the University of Central Florida, said: “ Flight tracking companies can make millions of dollars a year. Just a small corner of them is already a big revenue for me. ”

If you don’t know, Jack Sweeney is the owner of Elon Musk’s Jet Twitter account, specializing in tracking and providing accurate flight routes of the world’s richest billionaire. Musk once offered to pay Sweeney $5,000 to stop his scheme, but the cunning hacker wanted at least $50,000, or an internship at one of the companies owned by Musk.

According to Bloomberg, after the negotiation failed, Elon Musk decided to let Sweeney do whatever he wanted and even blocked this guy on Twitter. ” It’s funny to think about, Uncle Musk really wants to delete that account (Elon Musk’s Jet) and act like a crazy guy, ” Sweeney said.

According to 9gag