Today, an Alabama man pleaded guilty to hijacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on X in a January 2024 SIM swapping attack. This comes after the defendant, 25-year-old ...

An Alabama man pleaded guilty on Monday to helping hack the SEC's X (formerly Twitter) account in January 2024 in an attempt to mislead the market about spot Bitcoin ETF approvals. Eric Council, a ...

Eric Council Jr., the Alabama man charged with hacking the X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to falsely post the agency had approved bitcoin exchange-traded funds ...

Hacker Eric Council Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud after he took over the SEC’s X account in January 2024.

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Control and inverse problems in wave equations and graphs are essential areas of research in applied mathematics and engineering. These problems involve determining how to manipulate wave behavior ...

SEC staff concerned about job security and agency's direction, sources say SEC shifts focus under Trump, reducing crypto enforcement, centralizing control Agency ends affinity groups among staff ...

Musk has called the SEC "just another weaponized institution doing political dirty work." Musk started buying shares of Twitter, which he later renamed X, in early 2022. By mid-March, he'd ...

Before acquiring Twitter, now known as X, for $44 billion in October 2022, Musk had increased his shares in the company. The SEC requires investors to disclose when they own more than 5 percent of ...

In Jan. 2024, Eric Council hacked the X account of the SEC's prior chairman and falsely announced the SEC's approval of Bitcoin ETFs. As a result, the price of BTC increased by more than $1,000.

But Musk is firing back at the agency. He said the SEC is a “Totally broken organization” on X after the lawsuit was filed. And his lawyer, Alex Spiro, called the suit a “single-count ticky ...