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11.5.2023 6 MARKETS Symbol Volume Value Trades High Low Open Closing Change Code Traded Traded Trades Price Price Price Price EQUITIES BOV 10,005 11,005.50 2 1.100 1.100 1.100 1.100 0.000 LOM 215 215.00 1 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 -0.020 MIA 8,780 48,729.00 3 5.550 5.550 5.550 5.550 0.000 PG 12,000 23,440.00 4 1.960 1.940 1.960 1.940 -0.020 CORPORATE STOCKS G32GA 147,600 155,108.40 6 105.120 105.000 105.000 105.120 0.120 CORPORATE BONDS AX26A 3,000 2,565.30 1 85.510 85.510 85.510 85.510 -9.490 BV30B 11,100 9,990.00 1 90.000 90.000 90.000 90.000 -2.000 DF26A 15,000 14,999.00 2 100.000 99.990 99.990 100.000 0.050 GH27A 25,000 24,375.00 2 97.500 97.500 97.500 97.500 0.000 HF27A 7,100 6,851.50 2 96.500 96.500 96.500 96.500 -1.350 HF28A 4,300 3,810.23 1 88.610 88.610 88.610 88.610 -7.390 HP25A 15,200 15,184.80 2 99.900 99.900 99.900 99.900 0.050 IB32A 15,000 14,895.00 2 99.900 99.000 99.000 99.900 0.900 IH25A 3,000 3,030.00 1 101.000 101.000 101.000 101.000 -1.000 IH26B 4,100 4,017.59 1 97.990 97.990 97.990 97.990 -0.010 MO31A 5,000 4,711.50 2 94.250 94.000 94.000 94.250 0.250 26A 15,000 14,400.00 1 96.000 96.000 96.000 96.000 -0.500 MY32A 4,600 4,473.50 1 97.250 97.250 97.250 97.250 0.000 PC26A 5,000 4,779.30 2 95.600 95.500 95.600 95.500 -2.000 SD27A 18,000 17,280.00 2 96.000 96.000 96.000 96.000 0.000 SF27A 13,400 12,745.00 4 96.000 92.500 96.000 92.500 2.490 ST27A 19,000 18,675.00 4 99.500 97.500 97.500 99.500 2.000 TG26A 5,600 5,488.00 1 98.000 98.000 98.000 98.000 0.000 TI27A 5,000 4,550.00 1 91.000 91.000 91.000 91.000 -8.000 Malta Stock Exchange Regulated Main Market Trading Date: 10 May 2023 Briton pleads guilty over major Twitter hack A British national extradited to the US last month pleaded guilty in New York to a role in one of the biggest hacks in social media history. e July 2020 Twitter hack affected over 130 accounts in- cluding those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and Kanye West. Joseph James O'Connor, 23, known as PlugwalkJoe, pleaded guilty to hacking charges car- ry-ing a total maximum sentence of over 70 years in prison. e hacking was part of a large- scale Bitcoin scam. O'Connor, who was extradited from Spain, hijacked numerous Twitter accounts and sent out tweets asking followers to send Bitcoin to an account, promising to double their money. O'Connor, from Liverpool, was charged alongside three other men over the scam. US teenager Graham Ivan Clark pleaded guilty in 2021. Nima Fa- zeli of Orlando, Florida, and Ma- son Sheppard, of Bognor Regis in the UK, were charged with feder- al crimes. US Assistant Attorney-General Kenneth Polite Jr described in a statement O'Connor's ac-tions as "flagrant and malicious", saying he had "harassed, threatened and extorted his vic-tims, causing substantial emotional harm". O'Connor tried to stay anon- ymous by using a computer to hide behind stealth accounts and aliases from outside the United States. "But this plea shows that our investigators and prosecutors will identify, locate, and bring to justice such criminals to ensure they face the consequences for their crimes," the US As-sistant Attorney-General said. In 2020, an estimated 350 mil- lion Twitter users saw suspicious tweets from official ac-counts of the platform's biggest users. ousands fell for a scam, trust- ing that the crypto giveaway was real. Cyber experts agreed that the consequences of the Twitter hack could have been far worse if O'Connor and other hackers had more sophisticated plans than a get-rich-quick scheme. Disinformation could have been spread to affect political discourse and markets could have been moved by well-worded fake business announcements, for example. e hack showed how fragile Twitter's security was at the time. e attackers telephoned a small number of Twitter employees with a believable tale to convince them to hand over their internal login details - which eventual- ly granted the hackers access to Twitter's pow-erful administra- tive tools. Essentially, the hackers man- aged to use social engineering tricks more akin to those of conmen than of high-level cy- ber-criminals to get access to the powerful internal control panel at the site. It was, and still is, a hugely em- barrassing moment in Twitter's troubled history. O'Connor's admission has not come as a shock though as there was a wealth of evidence in the public domain thanks to the hackers making some bad mis- takes or being too loud in their celebrations in the aftermath of the hack. O'Connor also pleaded guilty to other hacking crimes including gaining access to a high-profile TikTok account. He posted a video to that ac- count where his own voice is recognisable and threatened to release "sensitive, personal mate- rial" related to the owner of the account to people who joined a Discord group. e US justice department said he had also used technology to stalk a minor.

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