British Twitter scammer arrested for celebrity hackers

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 A British man who hacked high profile Twitter accounts as part of Bitcoin scam has been arrested in the US. Joseph O'connor, form liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July, 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk. 



The 24 years old pleaded guilty to hacking charges last month. On friday, he was sentenced to five years for cybercrime, according to the united states Attorney's office in the southern district of New York. 

The hacking was part of a major Bitcoin scam that generated tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money. 

As a result of the fraud, an estimated 350 million Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets from official accounts of some of the platform's biggest users, including Apple, Uber, Kanye west and Bill Gate. 

Thousands were duped into believing that a crypto giveaway was real. O'Connor, who went by the alias plug walk Joe, was extradited from Spain to the US in April and last month pleaded guilty to hacking charges that carried a total maximum sentence of more than 70 years. 

Three other men have been charged over the scam, with US teenager Graham Clark pleading guilty to his part in the deception in 2021. 

The hackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believe tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details which eventually granted them access to Twitter's administrative tools. BBC

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