A British citizen recently extradited to the United States has pleaded guilty to a series of cybercrimes, including the infamous 2020 hack of high-profile Twitter accounts and the blinking of nearly $800,000.
May 10 A British citizen recently extradited to the United States has pleaded guilty to a series of cybercrimes, including the infamous 2020 hack of high-profile Twitter accounts and the blinking of nearly $800,000 in cryptocurrency from a Manhattan company.
Joseph James O’Connor, 23, was extradited to the United States from Spain on April 26, and pleaded guilty Tuesday in a New York courtroom to two sets of charges brought against him in New York and California.
„O’Connor has left an impressive trail of destruction in the wake of his wave of criminality,“ U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey for the Northern District of California said in a statement. „This case serves as a warning that the reach of the law is long, and criminals anywhere who use computers to commit crimes may end up facing the consequences of their actions in places they did not anticipate.“
Arrested in Spain in July 2021 at the request of the United States, O’Connor was charged over his involvement in the July 2020 hack of more than 130 high-profile accounts, including those of former President Barack Obama, President Joe Biden and others.
