A Liverpool man hacked into celebrity social media accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam and threatened to leak nude pictures of actress Bella Thorne.
Joseph O'Connor, 24, pleaded guilty to cybercrime charges last month nearly three years after he and a number of others hijacked more than 130 Twitter accounts including Kanye West, Elon Musk and Joe Biden as part of a Bitcoin scam. An estimated 350m Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets with thousands duped into believing the crypto giveaway was real.
O'Connor, who went by the online name Plugwalkjoe, also stole nearly $800,000 worth of cryptocurrency - and threatened to leak nude images of Bella Thorne. O'Connor was arrested in the Southern Spanish coastal town of Estepona in July 2021.
