The Twitter breach allowed O’Connor and his co-conspirators to obtain unauthorized access to the backend tools used by Twitter.
They then proceeded to hijack 130 popular accounts to perpetrate a crypto scam that netted them about $120,000 in illegal profits.
In addition, they sold access to these accounts to others.
O’ Connor communicated with others regarding purchasing unauthorized access of Twitter accounts, including those associated with public figures around the world.
After stealing and fraudulently diverting the stolen cryptocurrency, the DoJ said, O’Connor laundered it through dozens of transfers and transactions and exchanged some of it for Bitcoin using cryptocurrency exchange services, according to the court filing.
Ultimately, a portion of the recovered cryptocurrency was deposited into a cryptocurrency exchange account controlled by O’Collins.
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