A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly hacking the websites and “cloud-based accounts” of “world-famous” musicians, stealing their unreleased work, and selling the music for cryptocurrency, U.S. and British authorities announced Friday. The man was arrested in Ipswich, a city in eastern England, after the search of a property there and one in North London, according to an announcement from the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., and City of London Police Commissioner Ian Dyson. The Manhattan D.A. investigated the incident after being contacted by the musicians’ management companies and worked with the London police ahead of the arrest, according to the announcement. Authorities did not name the victimized musicians, but City of London officials said they were all American, some of them Grammy-winning, NBC 4 New York reported. Spokespeople for the Manhattan D.A. and the City of London did not immediately respond to questions regarding how much music […]
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