{"id":13528,"date":"2025-02-17T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2025-02-17T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:16:51","slug":"financial-crime-weekly-man-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-sec-social-media-account-two-plead-guilty-in-577-million-crypto-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13528","title":{"rendered":"Financial Crime Weekly: Man Pleads Guilty To Hacking SEC Social Media Account, Two Plead Guilty In $577 Million Crypto Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Man Pleads Guilty\u00a0To Hacking SEC Social Media Account<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/alabama-man-pleads-guilty-connection-securities-and-exchange-commission-x-account-hack\"> announced that<\/a> <strong>Eric Council<\/strong> pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Washington, D.C.. Council is accused of hacking the SEC&#8217;s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin exchange-traded <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-worth-millions\">fund approval message.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Details:<\/strong> According to court documents, Council and other conspirators gained control of the SEC&#8217;s X account through an unauthorized Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swap, a process of fraudulently reassigning a cell phone number from the legitimate subscriber or user&#8217;s SIM card to a SIM card controlled &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/social-media\/25\/02\/43768256\/financial-crime-weekly-man-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-sec-social-media-account-two-plead-guilt\" alt=\"Financial\" crime weekly: man pleads guilty to hacking sec social media account two plead in million crypto fraud scheme>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Pleads Guilty\u00a0To Hacking SEC Social Media Account The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced that Eric Council pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Washington, D.C.. Council is accused of hacking the SEC&#8217;s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin exchange-traded fund approval message.\u00a0 The Details: [&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-13528","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\/13528","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=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}