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UK teenager faces extradition over Twitter celebrity hack

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London | A British teenager charged with hacking Twitter had his home searched by the National Crime Agency and will probably face extradition to the US, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Mason Sheppard, a 19-year-old from Bognor Regis, in southern England, was one of three people charged by the US Department of Justice on Friday night (Saturday AEST) over an alleged cyber scam that saw the accounts of various celebrities hijacked last month.

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