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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...