A 26-year-old from Alabama has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking the SEC’s Twitter, posting a fake Bitcoin ...

The man used a fake ID and a new iPhone to pull off what's known as a 'SIM swap' attack on the Securities and Exchange ...

Eric Council Jr. sentenced to 14 months for his role in the SEC X account hack that led to a false Bitcoin ETF announcement.

An Alabama man has been handed 14 months behind bars after hacking an SEC social media account to post fake news about ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) social ...

An Alabama man will spend 14 months in prison for his role in hacking the SEC’s X account to spread false info about Bitcoin ...

U.S. prosecutors recommend a two-year sentence for the individual who hacked SEC’s official X account. The hacker used a SIM ...

Eric Council Jr. of Huntsville pleaded guilty to charges tied to the January 2024 hack of the U.S. Securities ... to hijack a phone number tied to the SEC’s account. His co-conspirators then ...

Council's role in the hack conspiracy involved executing a so-called SIM swap attack on a person whose phone number was linked to the SEC's X account. Council was tipped to the identity of that ...