A British man who hacked high profile Twitter accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam has been jailed in the US.
Ednews informs via BBC that Joseph O'Connor, from Liverpool, hijacked more than 130 accounts in July 2020, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk.
The 24-year-old pleaded guilty to hacking charges last month.
On Friday, he was sentenced to five years for cyber crimes, according to the United States Attorney's Office in the southern district of New York.
The hacking was part of a major Bitcoin scam that generated tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money.
As a result of the fraud, an estimated 350 million Twitter users viewed suspicious tweets from official accounts of some of the platform's biggest users, including Apple, Uber, Kanye West and Bill Gates.
Thousands were duped into believing that a crypto giveaway was real.