Twitter Hacker Ordered to Repay £4.1 Million in Bitcoin

Twitter Hacker Ordered to Repay £4.1 Million in Bitcoin

First seen 17 Nov 2025, 15:14 UTC •Cps.UkIndependentTheregister •25.0

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Joseph James O'Connor, a British hacker, has been ordered to repay £4.1 million ($5.40 million) in Bitcoin following his involvement in a 2020 Twitter hack that compromised high-profile accounts, including those of Elon Musk and Barack Obama. O'Connor, who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence in the US after pleading guilty to multiple charges, had his crypto assets seized by UK prosecutors as part of a civil recovery order.

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