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May 9, 2023 · The July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts including those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Joseph James O'Connor, 23, known as PlugwalkJoe, pleaded guilty to hacking charges carrying a...
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam.
Jul 16, 2020 · Cyber reporter. There are a lot of unanswered questions about the Twitter hack on Wednesday night - but one thing most agree on is it could have been far worse. Potentially thousands of people...
Jul 16, 2020 · Using Twitter's internal systems, the cyber-criminals' messages had a reach of at least 350 million people. And it looks like it made them about $110,000 (£86,800) in the few hours that the scam ...
May 10, 2023 · 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...
Jul 31, 2020 · On July 31st, the FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement placed a 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, under arrest — accusing him of being the “mastermind” behind the biggest ...
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This case took place most visibly in July 2020 and appears to be an attack utilizing Twitter as a way to try to steal money. The case is drawn from publicly available documentation and reflects the facts of the case as publicly reported and available at the time of writing.
