Joe Tidy
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Joe Tidy Life story
Joe Tidy is the BBC's first dedicated Cyber-security Reporter working on investigations for international and home news outlets. Appointed in 2018, he covers cyber crime, hacking, privacy, data security, online safety, gaming and pretty much everything internet.
Omegle: ‘How I got the dangerous chat site closed down'
...By Joe TidyCyber correspondent" I feel personal pride that no more children will be added to Omegle s body count, " says the woman who successfully forced the infamous chat site to shut down...
Government denies U-turn on encrypted messaging row
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E2E encryption: Should big tech be able to read people's messages?
...By Joe TidyCyber correspondentMeta s Mark Zuckerberg is on a collision course with the UK government over continued plans to build super-secure messaging into all his apps despite a potential landmark law that could effectively outlaw the technology...
MOVEit hack: Ofcom data downloaded in cyber-attack
... BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy said the group is well-known for carrying out its threats and it is likely that organisations will have private data published on the gang s darknet website in the coming weeks...
Briton pleads guilty in US to 2020 Twitter hack
...By Joe Tidy & Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsA British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history...
Meet the hacker armies on Ukraine's cyber front line
...By Joe TidyCyber correspondentWhen Russia initiated its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a second, less visible battle in cyberspace got under way...
Briton pleads guilty in US to 2020 Twitter hack
By Joe Tidy & Antoinette RadfordBBC News
A British national extradited to the US last month has pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in Social Media history.
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 total maximum sentence of over 70 years in prison.
The US justice department said he had also used technology to stalk a minor.
US Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described in a O'Connor's actions as " flagrant and malicious". saying he had " harassed, threatened, and extorted his victims, causing substantial emotional harm".
" Like many criminal actors, O'Connor tried to stay anonymous by using a computer to hide behind stealth accounts and aliases from outside the United States . But this plea shows that our investigators and prosecutors will identify, locate, and bring to justice such criminals to ensure they face the consequences for their crimes. "
In 2020, an estimated 350 million Twitter users saw suspicious tweets from official accounts of The Platform 's biggest users. Thousands fell for a scam, trusting that a crypto giveaway was real.
Cyber experts agreed that the consequences of the Twitter hack could have been far worse if O'Connor and other hackers had had plans more sophisticated than a get-rich-quick scheme.
Disinformation could have been spread to affect political discourse and markets could have been moved by well-worded fake business announcements for example.
The hack showed how fragile Twitter's security was at The Time as the hackers managed to use social engineering tricks more akin to those of conmen than of high-level cyber criminals to get access to the powerful internal Control Panel at The Site .
It was, and still is, a hugely embarrassing moment in Twitter's troubled history.
O'Connor's admission has not come as a shock though as there was a wealth of evidence in the Public Domain thanks to the hackers making some bad mistakes or being too loud in their celebrations in The Aftermath of the hack.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
