U.K. Man Arrested For Hacking Into Kim Kardashian & Kanye West's Twitter Accounts In Bitcoin Mega-Scam
July 21 2021, Published 11:43 a.m. ET
A man from the United Kingdom has been arrested in connection to the mega-hacking that compromised over 130 Twitter accounts, including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's.
Joseph O’Connor, 22, was taken into custody in Estepona, Spain, by Spanish National Police pursuant on Wednesday.
According to a press release, he is being charged with a long list of crimes, including "three counts of conspiracy to intentionally access a computer without authorization and obtaining information from a protected computer; two counts of intentionally accessing a computer without authorization and obtaining information from a protected computer; one count of conspiracy to intentionally access a computer without authorization and, with the intent to extort from a person a thing of value, transmitting a communication containing a threat; one count of making extortive communications; one count of making threatening communications; and two counts of cyberstalking."
O'Connor is also being charged with "computer intrusions related to takeovers of TikTok and Snapchat user accounts," and "cyberstalking a juvenile victim."
Back in July 2020, more than 130 Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities, politicians, tech moguls, and companies were compromised in a Bitcoin-mega scandal.
Accounts belonging to Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Wiz Khalifa, Kimye, and more were hacked as part of a cryptocurrency scam.
