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Bloomberg News reports:
A British man was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in a social media hack that included hijacking Twitter accounts of top US political and business leaders, and for cyberstalking and threatening several individuals.
Joseph James O’Connor, 24, pleaded guilty in New York last month to taking part in numerous online schemes, including a July 2020 hack of Twitter, which led to the impersonation of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and others to advertise a Bitcoin scheme. The guilty plea came after O’Connor, known online as “PlugwalkJoe,” was extradited from Spain on April 26.
“I am ashamed to be here,” O’Connor told US District Judge Jed Rakoff in his sentencing hearing in Manhattan Friday. “I’m sorry to all the victims of my crimes. I’m here because I did stupid and shameful things.”
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The hacking raised global alarm over Twitter’s security measures regarding the accounts of national leaders.
A British man was sentenced for his role in a social media hack that included hijacking Twitter accounts of top US political and business leaders https://t.co/GFfaB9Mdam
— Bloomberg (@business) June 23, 2023
#ICYMI: Thanks to the #FBI‘s work, Joseph James O’Connor, a U.K. citizen, was extradited from Spain and pled guilty to crimes relating to exploiting social media accounts, online extortion, and cyberstalking. Read more at: https://t.co/4wwU1jKmAo.
— FBI (@FBI) June 20, 2023
Joseph James O’Connor was part of a hacking group that broke into dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts in July 2020 — including Apple, Binance, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and Elon Musk — to spread cryptocurrency scams.
More: https://t.co/3ao8XBusBz pic.twitter.com/53f8UHkbVa
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) June 23, 2023
U.K. hacker Joseph James O’Connor sentenced to 5 years for massive Twitter breach, targeting 130 high-profile accounts, executing a crypto scam, and netting $120,000 in illegal profits.
Read details: https://t.co/19w6MvZjSD#cybersecurity #hacking #cryptocurrency
— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) June 24, 2023
A US federal court sentences UK citizen Joseph James O’Connor to five years in prison for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) https://t.co/5mmFnv6xAC pic.twitter.com/ve1Cr0CaBe
— Carlos Cuquejo (@HostingCarlos) June 23, 2023
UK man who pleaded guilty to celebrity Twitter hack gets five years in prison
Joseph James O’Connor, 24, pleaded guilty to cybercrime charges last month for hijacking celeb accounts with Bitcoin scam https://t.co/tFKAXPb4e3
— Pete Quily (@pqpolitics) June 24, 2023