skylar dalziel, who's from luton, made tens of thousands of pounds selling the tracks online.of. it started in 2021 when sony realised that the online storage of one of their artists, upsahl, had been hacked and unreleased songs stolen and were being sold on the dark web. they told an industry body, who told the city of london police. when police raided skylar dalziel�*s house, they found nearly 300,000 tracks — many of them unreleased — stored on hard drives. they also found detailed records of how she had sold them, how she had taken the money on paypal — around £42,000 of it — and transferred it to bank accounts in the uk and the us. the 22—year—old hacker pleaded guilty to 11 copyright offences but was spared jail. because of that, police have not released her image. but in a statement did say... "today's sentencing sends a clear message that we have the ability and tools to locate cyber—criminals and hold him to account for their actions." the music industry say crimes like these don'tjust hurt their big—name artists butjeopardise an industry worth billions to the uk econ