Sentence: 5 years imprisonment
Joseph James O'Connor, known online as 'PlugwalkJoe', from Liverpool, hijacked verified Twitter accounts of celebrities including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Michael Bloomberg in July 2020. He scammed followers by promising to double Bitcoin sent to his account. He threatened to leak nude images of Bella Thorne, stalked and threatened a minor online, and made false emergency calls (swatting). The crimes were committed from his bedroom involving a hacker community met through gaming.