Twitter hacker and crypto scammer sentenced to five years in prison<p>On Friday, a federal court <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
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sentenced Joseph James O’Conner[/url] to five years in prison for his involvement in the <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="
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2020 Twitter hack[/url]. Last month, the 24-year-old, known as PlugwalkJoe online, <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="
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plead guilty[/url] to a host of cyber crimes, including carrying out a SIM-swapping attack that targeted a TikTok account with millions of followers. The 2020 Twitter hack saw O’Conner and his co-perpetrators obtain access to the company’s backend and subsequently the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and more than 100 other high-profile users. O’Conner netted $794,000 in the crypto scam that followed.</p><p>"After stealing and fraudulently diverting the stolen cryptocurrency, O'Connor and his co-conspirators laundered it through dozens of transfers and transactions and exchanged some of it for Bitcoin using cryptocurrency exchange services," the Justice Department said. "Ultimately, a portion of the stolen cryptocurrency was deposited into a cryptocurrency exchange account controlled by O'Connor." In 2021, Graham Ivan Clark, the alleged teenage mastermind behind the breach, <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="
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plead guilty[/url] in return for a three-year prison sentence. In addition to his five-year sentence, O’Conner also faces three years of supervised release after his prison term. He must also forfeit the $794,000 he defrauded during the hack.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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Twitter hacker and crypto scammer sentenced to five years in prison
