An Alabama man admitted Monday to taking part in a January 2024 hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account designed to manipulate the price of bitcoin.



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An Alabama man has admitted to taking part in a January 2024 hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account designed to manipulate the price of bitcoin.

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An Alabama man on Monday pleaded guilty to hacking into the Securities and Exchange Committee's social media account and posting a false message in January 2024.

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An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday to the 2024 hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account which temporarily caused the Bitcoin value to sharply drop.Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old Athens man, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity and access device fraud.

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An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC's X account, to falsely claim in January 2024 the agency had approved bitcoin ETFs

Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Twitter account last year. The DOJ says he was the one who carried out the SIM swapping that made the takeover possible.

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The Alabama man took over the SEC's X account to falsely post that the agency had approved Bitcoin ETFs, sending the cryptocurrency's price soaring.

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