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Police arrested Joseph James O’Connor in July 2021 in Spain.
Madrid:
A Spanish courtroom authorized Friday the extradition to the US of a British man suspected of hacking the Twitter accounts of main public figures together with presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Police arrested Joseph James O’Connor in July 2021 within the southern metropolis of Estepona which is dwelling to a lot of Britons.
He faces a number of costs in reference to the July 2020 hack of over 130 Twitter accounts, together with these of then-Democratic presidential candidate Biden.
The accounts of former President Barack Obama, Microsoft co-founder Invoice Gates and Tesla boss Elon Musk, who now owns Twitter, had been additionally hit.
US officers allege O’Connor hijacked the celeb accounts after which requested followers of them to ship bitcoin to an account, promising to double their cash.
Spain’s Nationwide Court docket mentioned on Friday that he’s additionally suspected of hacking the Snapchat account of a unnamed public determine after which threatening to publish bare photos of him except he was financially compensated.
It mentioned the “essential circumstances” had been met for Spain to conform to a US extradition request for the 23-year-old, who can be recognized by the alias “Plugwalk Joe”.
Spain’s cupboard nonetheless should approve it though often complies with the courtroom’s selections.
O’Connor may nonetheless enchantment the extradition. He faces costs associated to unauthorised laptop entry, extortion and cyberstalking.
His defence workforce had argued that he must be tried in Spain, the placement of the pc servers which had been allegedly used within the hacking.
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