Liverpool’s Briton Joseph O’Connor, who hacked more than 130 famous Twitter accounts in 2020, has been sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime. Portal reports crushable.
O’Connor gained access to the profiles of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other public figures and then placed fake links on them in an offer to invest in their bitcoins to increase their numbers. Posts with the hacker’s plot saw a total of about 350 million Twitter users.
Using social engineering, O’Connor and his accomplices gained access to the accounts of real Twitter employees. The hacker, using the pseudonym PlugwalkJoe, was extradited from Spain to the United States, where he was sentenced to five years in prison and $794,000 in damages. Speaking in court, O’Connor described his crime as “stupid and stupid” and also apologized to all victims of the hack.
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