Twitter hack: Joseph O'Connor jailed for celebrity cyber attack
Joseph O'Connor was arrested in Spain in 2021 and extradited to the US in April A British man who hacked high profile Twitter accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been jailed in the US. Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to hacking charges last month. On Friday, he was sentenced to five years for cyber crimes, according to the United States Attorney's Office in t
