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.

A dark web hacker who trousered £42,000 selling unreleased music from leading artists like Coldplay, Shawn Mendes and Melanie Martinez has avoided jail. Skylar Dalziel, 22, stole tracks by illegally accessing several cloud storage accounts linked to the popular acts.

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.

Police discovered hard drives containing thousands of songs in Skylar Dalziel’s home, including unreleased tracks from Coldplay