PlugwalkJoe hacked hundreds of prominent social media accounts via SIM swap attacks, and will finally serve prison time in the U.S. after being extradited from Spain in April.
The hackers deployed a series of “social engineering techniques” and SIM-swapping attacks to hijack around 130 prominent Twitter accounts, along with two large accounts on TikTok and Snapchat.
As part of this scheme, O’Connor attempted to blackmail the Snapchat victim by threatening to publicly release private messages if they didn’t make posts promoting O’Connor’s online persona.
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