WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

Eric Counsel Jr. is accused of helping to hack the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account in order to post false ...

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.

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

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

Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old Alabama resident, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated identity ...

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

A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account ...

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

On October 17, 2024, the FBI arrested 25-year-old Eric Council Jr. of Athens, Alabama, in connection with the January 9 hack ...

An independent journalist says he was visited by the FBI after he published materiel allegedly obtained through an Iranian ...

Authorities are investigating a cyberattack linked to China-backed hackers that targeted major U.S. telecommunications companies and systems used for intelligence collection.