The FBI arrested Eric Council Jr. who used the SEC's X account to post a fake BTC ETF approval in January, causing a price ...

The post sent by hackers on the SEC's X account made the false claim the regulator had allowed Bitcoin to be part of ...

To carry out this scheme, Council is accused of creating a fake ID using the information belonging to the person in control ...

Alabama man arrested by FBI in connection with the January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account.

A fake tweet announced the approval for the first spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds before the agency regained control of ...

FBI officials arrested an Alabama man Thursday for allegedly hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this ...

An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

A man was arrested in Alabama Thursday by the FBI on charges related to the January hack of the Securities and Exchange ...

Eric Council Jr. allegedly hijacked the SEC's X account and then handed control to unnamed co-conspirators, whose fake post ...

Remember when the SEC's Twitter account was hacked to prematurely share that Bitcoin ETFs were approved? The FBI has arrested ...

The incident sparked criticism of the SEC, the top US markets regulator, and renewed concerns over security on the social ...