MADRID: A British man was charged in the United States in connection with last year’s Twitter hacking which endangered dozens of influential accounts would appear before the Spanish judge on Thursday.
Joseph O’Connor, 22, arranged to be questioned through video conferencing from Estepona, the South Spanish resort city where the police arrested him on Wednesday at the US arrest warrant, said a spokesman for the Spanish National Court.
The US prosecutor accused O’Connor involvement in hacking July 2020 from more than 130 accounts, including politicians, celebrities, and leading technology mogul.
Criminal complaints submitted in the Federal Court in the Northern District of California also demanded O’Connor for hacking taking over Twitter, Tiktok and Snapchat accounts, and teenage cyberstalsing.
The National Court based in Madrid handles extradition requests in Spain.
A trial spokesman who was unauthorized to be named in a media report, said that the judge would decide whether O’Connor had to remain in detention while waiting for the extradition procedure.
These procedures can take months before being completed and involves a review of Judicial and Spanish cabinet approval.
The FBI told the Spanish authority about the alleged O’Connor involvement in the hacking last summer, the National Police said in a press release.
It was said that Spanish and US agents took part in his arrest and looked for the suspect’s residence, confiscated two computers and cellphones.
Complaints of US criminal charged O’Connor _ that goes with plugwalkjoe handle online _ with crime including cyberstalking, making communications that are for and threatening and deliberately accessing computers without authorization.
O’Connor denied the mistake in the previous interview.
His lawyer could not be contacted immediately.
During high profile security violations a year ago, fake tweets were sent from Barack Obama’s account, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, and several Tech billionaires including Amazon’s Then-CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Fake tweets request high profile account followers to send Bitcoin payments.
O’Connor at least the fourth suspect charged with respect to hack.
The Spanish National Police said on Thursday that O’Connor permanently lived in Marbella, another South Coast City popular with foreign residents and that he was on their radar at least since April 2020 as part of a criminal group accused of online fraud.
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