The 24-year-old British man behind a series of high-profile social media hacks has been sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison.
, which found that O’Connor and his co-conspirators had managed to transfer account ownership to unauthorized users—sometimes themselves, and sometimes to others willing to pay for the accounts. O’Connor himself paidpress statementIn addition to the Twitter hack, O’Connor also pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $800,000 from a crypto company by SIM swapping at least three executives’ phone numbers.
from Bloomberg. “I’m sorry to all the victims of my crimes. I’m here because I did stupid and shameful things.”
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