A British man pleaded guilty on Tuesday for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and stealing $794 000 in cryptocurrency.
Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagHe and others in his hacking group stole $794 000 in cryptocurrency. A British man pleaded guilty on Tuesday for his role in schemes to hack the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Barack Obama and Elon Musk and steal $794 000 in cryptocurrency.
He was arrested nearly two years ago in Spain for the July 2020 hack of over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Obama and Musk. In 2019 the group also used a technique known as sim card swaps to break their way into social media accounts of two media stars, not named in court filings but named in press reports as TikTok star Addison Rae and actor Bella Thorne.Twitter sued over data leak that it denied was caused by a flaw
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