Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities ...

An Alabama hacker, Eric Council Jr., has pleaded guilty to hacking the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account and ...

An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking the SEC’s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) ...

Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Alabama, was arrested in October for his role in the hack of the SEC’s X account.

Javier Bastardo covers Bitcoin and crypto news from the Global South. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that they caught Eric Council Jr., the hacker who published a fake spot bitcoin ...

Once Council gained access to the account, his unnamed co-conspirators posted a doctored image, message, and fake quote by then SEC Chairman Gary Gensler saying Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETC ...

The man, Eric Council Jr., used a fake ID to gain access to a device with SEC account credentials. The account was then used ...

Related: Crypto Biz: SEC cleans up Gensler-era mess The fake Bitcoin ETF post, published to X on Jan. 9, 2024, came as many in the crypto industry anticipated the SEC would announce whether it ...

Always fake. No user data leaked.” Youssef went on to write that he was “still confirming if some employee data was leaked from [a] third-party payroll site.” Nevertheless, the forum post received ...

An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s official X account last year to manipulate bitcoin prices. Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Athens ...