Ed Sheeran’s Music Stolen

A computer hacker has been jailed for stealing an unreleased Ed Sheeran song and putting it online in exchange for Bitcoin.

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Adrian Kwiatkowski, 23, broke into the cloud-based accounts of dozens of musicians.

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He obtained caches of unaired songs, including two Sheeran’s tracks and 12 songs by US rapper Lil Uzi Vert .

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This hacker known as Spirdark took advantage of the DarkWeb to sell music for cryptocurrency and made a profit of £131,000.

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The culprit was identified as Ipswich resident Kwiatkowski and charged with cybercrime catalogues.

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On Friday, Kwiatkowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison in Ipswich Criminal Court.

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At the time of his arrest, Kwiatkowski's Apple Mac laptop had 565 audio files. Also, investigators found 1,263 unreleased songs by 89 artists on multiple devices.

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