A 25-year-old Alabama man has been arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in hacking the SEC’s X account earlier this year.

Hackers took control of the account and posted a message saying the agency had approved bitcoin exchange-traded funds for ...

FBI agents on Thursday morning arrested a 25-year-old Alabama man on charges related to the hack in January of the Securities ...

An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC's X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved. The Department of Justice said that ...

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

Eric Council Jr., 25, was arrested this morning in Athens in connection with a January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S.

An Alabama man was arrested on Thursday over criminal charges that he hacked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X ...

The hijacked account posted illegitimate news about a widely-anticipated Bitcoin announcement, leading the cryptocurrency to ...

Eric Council Jr. arrested for hacking SEC's Twitter, causing a temporary $1,000 spike in Bitcoin prices with a fake ETF ...

Council is currently charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud. There’s no word yet ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested on Thursday an Alabama man who is allegedly behind the hacking of the U.S.

The FBI arrested a 25-year-old man from Alabama, Eric Council Jr., in connection with a January hack of the Securities and ...