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

By Douglas Gillison, Chris Prentice, Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday ...

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

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

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

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

A US man was arrested after prosecutors accused of being responsible for hacking the SEC's social media to post a fake ...

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

FBI officials arrested an Alabama man Thursday for allegedly hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this ...

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

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

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