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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tristan Kirk

British hacker who targeted Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in Bitcoin scam ordered to hand over £4million

A British hacker who targeted VIP Twitter accounts including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Kim Kardashian has been ordered to hand over £4 million.

Joseph James O’Connor, 26, was jailed for five years in the US over a plot to scam people out of Bitcoin and threaten celebrities with the release of personal images and messages.

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