A 24-year-old hacker has been sent to federal prison in the US. In July 2020, along with others, he hacked the Twitter accounts of at least 130 well-known people and tried to control them. Joseph James O’Connor attacked several celebrity accounts including US President Joe Biden Twitter acount, American socialite and model Kim Kardashian and Tesla CEO Elon Musk Twitter acount.
apologized to his victims
O’Connor was sentenced in New York federal court to five years in prison after pleading guilty in May for his role in cyberstalking and computer hacking that targeted several high-profile social media accounts, according to the report. In court, he said his crimes were senseless and pointless and apologized to his victims, TechCrunch reported.
There is an online handle by the name of plugwalkjoe.
O’Connor, better known by his online handle PlugWalkJoe, was part of a group that hacked dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Apple, Binance, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and Elon Musk, to spread a cryptocurrency scam in July 2020. Was put He was extradited from Spain to the US in April this year.
In July 2020, O’Connor (Joseph James O’Connor) wrote on Biden’s account – All bitcoins sent to the address below will be sent back doubly. If you send $1,000, I’ll send back $2,000. Only do this for 30 minutes. enjoy.
Twitter took this action
Twitter responded at the time by deactivating all verified accounts and disabling the tweet feature in an attempt to target the hackers. As part of his plea deal, O’Connor has agreed to pay restitution to all victims and forfeiture of more than $794,000.