This was reported by TechCrunch, Ukrinform reports.

In addition, O’Connor must pay $794,000 to the victims of his crimes.

He is a UK citizen and was extradited from Spain earlier this year at the request of the US Attorney General’s Office and has been in custody ever since. In May, the man pleaded guilty to four counts of hacking, radio fraud, cyber harassment and money laundering.

During the hearing, Judge Jed S. Rakoff said O’Connor would likely serve about half of his sentence after more than two years in detention. Prosecutors instead demanded at least seven years in prison for O’Connor.

In court, O’Connor called his crimes “stupid and senseless” and apologized to his victims.

Nicknamed PlugWalkJoe, O’Connor is said to be part of a group that hacked dozens of prominent Twitter accounts, including Apple, Binance, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk, in July 2020 with the intent of getting rich. -Fast cryptocurrency scam.

According to prosecutors, the attacker carried out an advanced SIM swap attack to steal large amounts of cryptocurrency, hacked Twitter, hacked computers to hijack social media accounts, and even followed two victims, including a minor victim.

As Ukrinform reported, the State Private Communications and Information Protection Service of Ukraine warned that Russian hackers are intensifying phishing attacks to gain unauthorized access to the personal data of Ukrainians, in particular the passwords of the mailboxes of the Ukr.net service.