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Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence

Posted on June 26, 2023

A chapter of internet history has come to a close. One of the cybercriminals behind 2020’s major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison on Friday. Joseph O’Connor (AKA “PlugwalkJoe”), a 24-year-old British citizen, previously pleaded guilty to seven charges associated with the digital attack.…

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