{"id":12386,"date":"2025-02-11T05:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:46:42","slug":"hacker-pleads-guilty-to-secs-fake-bitcoin-etf-post-on-x-that-triggered-financial-wipeout-worth-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12386","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Pleads Guilty To SEC&#8217;s Fake Bitcoin ETF Post On X That Triggered Financial Wipeout Worth Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking\u00a0the SEC\u2019s X account and posting a fake <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) exchange-traded fund approval message, causing millions of dollars in market losses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: Eric Council pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Washington, D.C., according to a Justice Department press release. <\/p>\n<p>He now faces\u00a0a maximum sentence of five\u00a0years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and potentially\u00a0three years of supervised release. The sentencing is slated for May.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43614251\/hacker-pleads-guilty-to-secs-fake-bitcoin-etf-post-on-x-that-triggered-financial-wipeout-w\" alt=\"Hacker\" pleads guilty to sec fake bitcoin etf post on x that triggered financial wipeout worth millions>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking\u00a0the SEC\u2019s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded fund approval message, causing millions of dollars in market losses. What Happened: Eric Council pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Washington, D.C., according to a Justice Department press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}