Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Twitter account last year. In early January 2024, SEC’s official X account tweeted that bitcoin ETFs had been approved “for listing on all registered national securities exchanges,” but SEC Chair Gary Gensler quickly announced that the agency’s account was compromised. The commission later revealed that it was the victim of a SIM swapping attack, though it also admitted that it account wasn’t
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