A British man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and
stealing $794,000 in cryptocurrency. Joseph James O’Connor, 23, entered his guilty plea in a New York court after being extradited from Spain on April 26. He was
arrested nearly two years ago in Spain for the
July 2020 hack of over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Obama and Musk. He and others in his hacking group hijacked the accounts and asked the owners’ followers to send them bitcoin, promising to double their money.
