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Bookmark or Share- Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC's X ...Eric Council Jr. was indicted in connection with the SEC X account hack, which happened on January 9, when the account published a post falsely announcing that the Commission had approved Bitcoin...
- FBI arrests Athens man, says he's hacker behind fake SEC tweet about ...Eric Council Jr., 25, was arrested this morning in Athens in connection with a January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account, formerly known...
- FBI Arrests Hacker Behind SEC X Account Fake Bitcoin ETF ... - ForbesThe Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that they caught Eric Council Jr., the hacker who published a fake spot bitcoin ETF approval message in January, unlawfully using the Securities and...
- Eric Council Jr. arrested for hacking Securities and Exchange ...Eric Council Jr., 25, allegedly used a process called SIM swapping to replace the legitimate phone number tied to the SEC’s account with his number. From there, investigators say one of his alleged co-conspirators went onto the account and pretended to be SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
- Hacker arrested for the fake SEC tweet that caused a Bitcoin price ...An Alabama man named Eric Council Jr. has been arrested by the FBI for using SIM swapping to make a fake X post from the SEC claiming Bitcoin ETFs had been approved.
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