The FBI arrested Eric Council Jr. who used the SEC's X account to post a fake BTC ETF approval in January, causing a price ...

An Alabama man has been arrested for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social ...

FBI officials arrested an Alabama man Thursday for allegedly hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this ...

According to court documents, Eric Council Jr went under the aliases Ronin, Easymunny, and AGiantSchnauzer online, and ...

To carry out this scheme, Council is accused of creating a fake ID using the information belonging to the person in control ...

Alabama man arrested by FBI in connection with the January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account.

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

FBI agents arrested a man in connection with the Jan. 9 hack of the X account belonging to the Securities and Exchange ...

The incident sparked criticism of the SEC, the top US markets regulator, and renewed concerns over security on the social ...

Eric Council Jr. allegedly hijacked the SEC's X account and then handed control to unnamed co-conspirators, whose fake post ...

Remember when the SEC's Twitter account was hacked to prematurely share that Bitcoin ETFs were approved? The FBI has arrested ...

An Alabama man was charged over the January hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account ahead of its ...