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

H acker Eric Council Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device ...

An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking the SEC’s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin BTC/USD exchange-traded fund approval message, causing millions of dollars in market losses.

Council is accused of hacking the SEC's X account and posting a fake Bitcoin exchange-traded fund approval message. The Details: According to court documents, Council and other conspirators ...

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 ...

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

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 ...