{"id":37942,"date":"2021-07-21T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37942"},"modified":"2021-07-21T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:27:21","slug":"uk-citizen-arrested-in-connection-to-2020-twitter-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37942","title":{"rendered":"UK citizen arrested in connection to 2020 Twitter hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A citizen of the United Kingdom was arrested in Spain on Wednesday in connection with the July 2020 Twitter hack that compromised politicians\u2019 and celebrities\u2019 accounts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kmlfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhmfdsv_cmttccpdpftldlmhllhp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kmlfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhmfdsv_cmttccpdpftldlmhllhp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626994398829000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6mjXjiDa3gjS11-UQuTt6yye1-g\">the Justice Department announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph O\u2019Connor, 22, is facing several federal charges in connection with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfwjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyfjrpp_cmttccpdpftldlmhllhp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfwjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyfjrpp_cmttccpdpftldlmhllhp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626994398829000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEBaFe_rDDkieOJtQ-3HnFdDZR-kQ\">July 15, 2020 hack<\/a>\u00a0that compromised over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of\u00a0President Biden, former President Obama and\u00a0Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department said the U.K.\u2019s National Crime Agency and the Spanish National Police provided assistance in the investigation and the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A citizen of the United Kingdom&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37943,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37942\/revisions\/37943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}