An Alabama man on Monday pleaded guilty to hacking into the Securities and Exchange Committee's social media account and ...

Eric Council hacked into the account using a process called SIM swapping to replace the phone number of then-SEC Chair Gary Gensler.

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. Eric Council Jr., 25 ...

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The man faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

The 25-year-old perpetrator admitted to executing a SIM swap that gave him control over the phone number associated with the SEC’s X account. Through this access, Council reset the account password ...

An Athens man who was arrested in October for hacking into the X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has entered a guilty plea.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, has created a Crypto Task Force with a page on its website detailing the ...

Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Alabama, was arrested in October for his role in the hack of the SEC’s X account.

A man from Athens pleaded guilty today in connection with a January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and ...