Federal prosecutors in New York are accusing Joseph James O’Conner, named in last year’s Twitter hack, of being involved in a $784,000 cryptocurrency theft.
According to the Justice Department’s statement on Wednesday, O’Connor and his collaborators were released from a cryptocurrency company using the SIM swapping method in 2019. (for that period) Cryptocurrency worth $784,000 They are accused of stealing.
The thieves used the SIM change method to use the phone number of the person they targeted. from another device uses it to gain access to that person’s accounts.
The crypto money that O’Connor and his collaborators stole from the Manhattan-based company; 7.456728 bitcoins, 407,396074 ethers, 770,784869 bitcoin cash and 6.363.490509 It has been announced that it consists of 1 litecoin. Their total value at the time of writing It’s over $4 million.
Some of the stolen cryptocurrencies were laundered and some were converted to bitcoin via exchanges, while the rest was transferred to an exchange account owned by O’Connor.
PlugwalkJoe British citizen O’Connor, also known by his name, tweeted on Twitter in July 2020 and for that period. More than $100,000 worth of bitcoin He was arrested in Spain on July 21, following the hacking attack that resulted in theft.
Those whose accounts were hacked in the attack included Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and other names.
Graham Ivan Clark, who was 17 years old at the time, was sentenced to three years in prison.