{"id":2249,"date":"2021-07-21T19:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:47:52","slug":"briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>22-year-old faces multiple charges in connection with attacks on accounts of politicians and celebrities<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jul\/15\/twitter-elon-musk-joe-biden-hacked-bitcoin\">a July 2020 Twitter hack<\/a> that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It named the British man as Joseph James O\u2019Connor and said he faced multiple charges. He was also accused in a criminal complaint of computer intrusions related to takeovers of TikTok and Snapchat accounts, including one incident involving sextortion, as well as cyberstalking a 16-year-old juvenile.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jul\/21\/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e63257e16de8501650cf3ec1ae9a0e542fddbdf\/0_141_2190_1314\/master\/2190.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=80124d503711a439dfdc5a4d964c96fb\" title=\"Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks\" \/>22-year-old faces multiple charges in connection with attacks on accounts of politicians and celebrities<br \/>\nA 22-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nIt named the British man as Joseph James O\u2019Connor and said he faced multiple charges. He was also accused in a criminal complaint of computer intrusions related to takeovers of TikTok and Snapchat accounts, including one incident involving sextortion, as well as cyberstalking a 16-year-old juvenile. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22-year-old faces multiple charges in connection with attacks on accounts of politicians and celebrities A 22-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with a July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of high-profile politicians and celebrities, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday. It named the British man as Joseph James &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/21\/briton-arrested-over-high-profile-twitter-account-hacks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Briton arrested over high-profile Twitter account hacks<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}