{"id":1386,"date":"2024-10-19T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2024-10-19T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:02:22","slug":"fbi-arrests-alabama-man-who-allegedly-hacked-secs-x-account-to-prematurely-announce-bitcoin-etf-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"FBI Arrests Alabama Man Who Allegedly Hacked SEC&#8217;s X Account To Prematurely Announce Bitcoin ETF Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <strong>Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<\/strong> has arrested an Alabama resident for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/01\/36566797\/sec-twitter-hacked-fake-bitcoin-etf-approval-tweet-creates-market-mayhem\">hacking<\/a> the <strong>U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/strong>\u2018s social media account on <strong>X<\/strong> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/alabama-man-arrested-role-securities-and-exchange-commission-x-account-hack\">apprehended<\/a> <strong>Eric Council Jr.<\/strong> on Thursday, accusing him of conspiring with others to gain unauthorized access to the SEC\u2019s X account in January.<\/p>\n<p>Council allegedly used the name of SEC Chair <strong>Gary Gensler<\/strong> to falsely announce the approval of a <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) exchange-traded fund (ETF).<\/p>\n<p>This fake announcement caused Bitcoin\u2019s price to surge by over $1,000 before it plummeted more than $2,000 after the SEC regained control of its account and labeled the announcement a security breach. The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/10\/41415033\/fbi-arrests-alabama-man-who-allegedly-hacked-secs-x-account-to-prematurely-announce-bitcoi\" alt=\"FBI\" arrests alabama man who allegedly hacked sec x account to prematurely announce bitcoin etf approval>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested an Alabama resident for allegedly hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)\u2018s social media account on X earlier this year. What Happened: The FBI apprehended Eric Council Jr. on Thursday, accusing him of conspiring with others to gain unauthorized access to the SEC\u2019s X account in [&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-1386","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\/1386","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=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}