Скачать или смотреть British Hacker Ordered to Repay £4 Million After Celebrity Twitter Scam

A British hacker, Joseph O'Connor, also known as PlugwalkJoe, has been ordered to repay £4.1 million in stolen cryptocurrency after hijacking over 130 celebrity Twitter accounts.
In this video, we break down how O'Connor and his team infiltrated Twitter’s internal systems in 2020 using social engineering, targeting high-profile figures like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates. The hackers used these compromised accounts to run a fake Bitcoin giveaway scam that reached hundreds of millions of users.
Discover how investigators traced the Bitcoin, the outcome of O'Connor’s trial in the U.S., and what this case reveals about cybercrime, cryptocurrency scams, and social media security.
Topics covered:
The 2020 Twitter Bitcoin hack explained
How PlugwalkJoe gained access to Twitter's admin tools
The court’s decision and how much crypto was recovered
Lessons for online security and phishing awareness
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