Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter, has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison.
Source: Krebs on Security
U.K. Cyber Thug “PlugwalkJoe” Gets 5 Years in Prison
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