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 ...

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 ...

A hacker arrested in October 2024 in connection with the hack on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account has now pleaded guilty. Eric Council Jr. pleaded guilty in court on Monday to ...

An Alabama man faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty over hijack of SEC's X account. Spencer Platt/Getty An Alabama man who hijacked the X account of the US Securities and ...

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to participating in the hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account that involved sending a fake social media post announcing the authorization of ...

An Alabama man has pled guilty to hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account last year and faces up to five years in prison. The fake ETF announcement caused the price of ...

An Alabama man has admitted in court to hacking the X (formerly Twitter) account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The man, Eric Council Jr., 25, pled guilty to conspiring with ...

An Alabama man is facing up to five years in prison over the January 2024 takeover of the SEC’s social media account on X. The Office of Public Affairs (OPA) this week announced the guilty plea of ...

A 25-year-old Alabama man has pleaded guilty to charges related to the January 2024 hacking of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X (formerly Twitter) account. This incident briefly ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Tuesday that it will not defend a year-old rule requiring publicly held companies to disclose climate-related risks and in some cases the ...