A #hacker who stole unreleased music from well-known recording artists, including Ed Sheeran, and sold it for #cryptocurrencies on the dark web made more than £130,000 has been forced to repay £100,000.

In October of last year, Adrian Kwiatkowski of Ipswich, England, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of stealing new music by 89 artists, including American #rapper Lil Uzi Vert and #Sheeran. More than 1,200 unrecorded songs were discovered on his hard drive when investigators gained access to it.

Kwiatkowski gained access to private online accounts belonging to various management organisations while using the alias "#Spirdark" online.