A 26-year-old from Alabama has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking the SEC’s Twitter, posting a fake Bitcoin ...

Prosecutors said a statement purportedly made by the defendant claimed that the hack of the Securities and Exchange ...

Eric Council Jr. used a fake ID and a new iPhone to help his co-conspirators bypass the MFA on the Securities and Exchange ...

A 26-year-old man from Alabama has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for his role in a social media hack that ...

An Alabama man has admitted his role in a scheme that involved hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Twitter account ... are investigating the case. Please make a small ...

US prosecutors recommend a 2-year prison sentence for Eric Council Jr. over the January 2024 hack of the SEC's official X account that sparked a fake Bitcoin ETF approval.

An Alabama man admitted Monday to taking part in a January 2024 hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange ... October and charged with helping to break into the SEC’s account on X, formerly known as ...

The SEC quickly regained control of its X account and announced the tweet was false, sending the price of the cryptocurrency down by more than $2,000 per bitcoin. The hack occurred when the SEC ...

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to participating in the hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account that involved sending a fake social media post announcing the authorization of ...

An Alabama man pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with the January 2024 hack of the Securities and Exchange Commission's X account, which was used to falsely claim that the SEC had ...