According to Jinse Finance, as reported by Cointelegraph, a British man has been ordered to repay over $5 million for his involvement in a Bitcoin scam using celebrity/brand accounts.
Joseph James O’Connor must repay $5.4 million after he hijacked the X accounts of people like Musk and Obama in 2020 through a SIM swap attack.
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