UK Hacker Ordered to Pay £100k After Stealing Unreleased Ed Sheeran Music And Selling Them For Bitcoin
A computer hacker from Ipswich, England, known as Adrian Kwiatkowski but operating under the alias ‘Spirdark,’ has been compelled to reimburse £100,000 after orchestrating a lucrative scheme involving the theft and sale of unreleased music from globally recognized recording artists. His illicit activities, which involved trading the stolen tracks for cryptocurrency on the dark web, came to an end when authorities apprehended him. In October of last year, Adrian Kwiatkowski, a resident of Ipswich, England, faced an 18-month prison sentence for his involvement in stealing unreleased music from a multitude of high-profile artists, including the likes of Ed Sheeran and