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Twitter hacker receives 5-year prison sentence for crypto scam.

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Source: Engadget
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Joseph James O'Connor, one of the perpetrators of the 2020 Twitter hack, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the cybercrime. O'Connor, who also carried out a SIM-swapping attack on a TikTok account, stole $794,000 worth of cryptocurrency during the Twitter hack. He and his co-conspirators laundered the stolen cryptocurrency through multiple transfers and exchanges. O'Connor must forfeit the stolen funds and faces three years of supervised release after his prison term.

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