"Twitter Hack Mastermind "PlugwalkJoe" Pleads Guilty to Multiple Crimes"

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Source: The Verge
"Twitter Hack Mastermind "PlugwalkJoe" Pleads Guilty to Multiple Crimes"
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UK citizen PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O’Connor, has pled guilty to cyberstalking and other crimes related to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts, as well as SIM swaps resulting in the theft of $794,000 in crypto. He also took over a TikTok user’s account and targeted the Snapchat account of another high-profile user. O’Connor has agreed to forfeit over $794,000 to the victims of his scams and is set to be sentenced on June 23rd.

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