UK citizen extradited to US pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter hack

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UK citizen extradited to US pleads guilty to 2020 Twitter hack
A citizen of the United Kingdom who was extradited to New York from Spain last month has pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and computer hacking schemes, including the 2020 hack of the social media site Twitter, the US Justice Department said. Joseph James O'Connor, 23, was charged in both ...

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