The 22-year-old convict managed to earn a lot of money by selling the music he hacked.
The British band Coldplay performed several times at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium last summer. In the picture, the front picture of the band and the singer Chris Martin. Henri Kärkkäinen
A 22-year-old woman who hacked and sold the unreleased music of the British band Coldplay and several other well-known artists has been sentenced in Britain.
The hacker has confessed to stealing unreleased music. He was sentenced to a 21-month suspended prison sentence and 180 hours of community service.
He was guilty of a total of 11 copyright crimes.
Among other things, they reported on the matter BBC and Guardian.
According to the police, the convicted young woman managed to earn around 50,000 euros by selling the pieces she stole. According to the prosecutor, the woman selfishly used artists’ music to earn money by selling it on the dark web.
He had gained access to cloud services where music was stored. In addition to Coldplay, he acquired unreleased music recordings of Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and American singer Bebe Rexha, among others.
Bebe Rexha’s music was also among the stolen music recordings. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
In addition, he got his hands on recordings of the American Melanie Martinez and Upsahl about music.
The case began to unravel when the international record company Sony noticed that Upsahl’s cloud services had been hacked and forwarded the matter to the international umbrella organization of music producers in 2021.
After this, an account was found on an online forum that sold unreleased music by artists. About 290,000 copies were found on the hard drives of the woman’s computer. He transferred sales proceeds to bank accounts located in the United States.
The woman earned almost 50,000 euros by selling songs between April 2021 and January 2023.
Shawn Mendes’ music was also hijacked from cloud services. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS