Dark web hacker made £35k selling pop stars' unreleased material
Daily Express|January 04, 2025
A CYBER fraudster has been jailed for selling stolen unreleased music by chart-toppers including Coldplay via the dark web.
Dark web hacker made £35k selling pop stars' unreleased material

Skylar Dalziel, 22, is estimated to have made around £35,000 selling "hacked" copyrighted music through cryptocurrency exchanges, a court heard.

Police raiding her home in Luton, Beds, found computer hard drives showing she had access to several thousand unreleased tracks by Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Bebe Rexha among others.

The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit began investigating in 2022 after a referral from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

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