The 19-year-old hacker created a Twitter account to track Elon Musk’s private jet and demanded $50,000 for his effort to “let go” for him.

Remember 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, who set up a Twitter account to follow Elon Musk’s private jet? Tesla’s boss once made a $5,000 offer for Sweeney to stop this “stalk”, but he refused. As it turned out, Sweeney wanted this number to increase to 10 times, at least $ 50,000 to be worth the effort he spent on Elon Musk’s Jet Twitter account.

According to the Protocol news site, Elon Musk personally messaged Jack Sweeney on Twitter to discuss this issue. Musk said that Sweeney’s actions posed many security risks and asked him to disable the account that was tracking his private jet. In a text message from the world’s richest billionaire, he wrote: ” $5,000 for this account (Elon Musk’s Jet) and help me stop other crazy people stalking and stalking me, what do you think? ”

Sweeney replied sarcastically: “ Sounds good, bro, $5,000 to buy back the account and hire me to work. Can you increase it to about 50,000 USD? The guy even said this money could help him pay for college and buy a Tesla Model 3.

Speaking to Insider, Sweeney said: ” I really did a lot of things to create this account, and $ 5,000 is not enough .” And as we reported earlier, Elon Musk flatly refused the 19-year-old’s offer.

Sweeney further revealed that in recent times, it seems that the CEO of Tesla has followed some of his advice, using a blocking system to change his private plane’s identification code, making it difficult to track. than. “ I just had to punch and rub, ” Sweeney said, because Musk seemed to have lost interest in negotiating with him and had turned down an offer to raise the price to $50,000.

Sweeney started his unique project in June 2020, using a bot to collect public air traffic data and send alerts about the route of private jets that Musk uses. He said he actually researched this technology for many months, before officially making it public as a project during the period of social distancing.

The reason that Sweeney became such a stalker is quite simple: He is a fan of Elon Musk and is always curious about where he goes and what business deals he is conducting. His father worked in the aviation industry, and perhaps partly inspired him. “ I have apps that can track planes and all sorts of stuff,” says Sweeney. I think they’re pretty cool .”

Currently, Sweeney is both going to college and working part-time at UberJets. His mission is to build a platform that tracks flights so the company can find customers cheaper seats. Recently, he also texted Musk asking for an internship in one of his companies, but has not yet received a response.

According to BusinessInsider