A 22-year-old who pleaded guilty to stealing and selling unreleased music by artists like Coldplay and Shawn Mendes was sentenced to 21 months in prison, the BBC reports. Skylar Dalziel was accused of hacking cloud storage accounts linked to various artists and then selling the stolen tracks on the dark web.

Skylar Dalziel sold unreleased music belonging to Coldplay, Bebe Rexha, Melanie Martinez, Taylor Upsahl and Shawn Mendes.

A dark web dealer who made tens of thousands of pounds selling stolen unreleased music from famous artists including Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Bebe Rexha has been spared jail. Skylar Dalziel, 22, accessed thousands of copyrighted tracks pocketing £42,

A cyber hacker has pleaded guilty to stealing unreleased music from artists including Coldplay, Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and US singer Bebe Rexha. Skylar Dalziel made about £42,000 by selling the tracks online, according to City of London Police.