PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O’Connor, a UK citizen related to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts, together with Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Apple, has pled responsible to cyberstalking and different crimes. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that O’Connor has been extradited to the US.
In some cases, the co-conspirators took management themselves and used that management to launch a scheme to defraud different Twitter customers. In different cases, the co-conspirators offered entry to Twitter accounts to others. O’CONNOR communicated with others concerning buying unauthorized entry to quite a lot of Twitter accounts, together with accounts related to public figures all over the world. Plenty of Twitter accounts focused by O’CONNOR have been subsequently transferred away from their rightful homeowners. O’CONNOR agreed to buy unauthorized entry to 1 Twitter account for $10,000.
PlugwalkJoe additionally took over an unnamed TikTok person’s account in 2020, and the main points listed counsel the unnamed sufferer is top TikToker Addison Rae.
“O’Connor used his refined technological talents for malicious functions — conducting a posh SIM swap assault to steal giant quantities of cryptocurrency, hacking Twitter, conducting pc intrusions to take over social media accounts, and even cyberstalking two victims, together with a minor sufferer,” US Legal professional Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York says in an announcement.
