UK Man Who Hacked Elon Musk’s Twitter Account Could Face up to 70 Years in Prison

A UK man pleaded guilty this week to multiple counts of hacking, cyberstalking
and stealing cryptocurrency, as well as the widely reported hack of multiple
celebrities’ Twitter accounts in 2020.

23-year-old Joseph James O’Connor
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, aka PlugwalkJoe, participated in a plurality of crimes associated with
exploitation of social media accounts, online extortion and cybersta