Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities ...

The man faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

An Alabama man on Monday pleaded guilty to hacking into the Securities and Exchange Committee's social media account and ...

Electing Crypto tracks Trump’s first 100 days, from Bitcoin reserves to SEC overhauls, stablecoin bills, and crypto conflicts ...

The 25-year-old perpetrator admitted to executing a SIM swap that gave him control over the phone number associated with the SEC’s X account. Through this access, Council reset the account password ...

Council was arrested in October and charged with helping to break into the SEC’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, allowing unnamed co-conspirators to falsely announce the approval of ...

Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Alabama, was arrested in October for his role in the hack of the SEC’s X account.

A man from Athens pleaded guilty today in connection with a January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and ...

The SEC is evaluating “retroactive relief” for past crypto offerings, Strategy has paused its Bitcoin buying for now and BTC ...

Under the Bitcoin Reserve Act, the Treasury would not have to borrow and drive up the cost to service the debt, nor would the Federal Reserve have to create money and cause inflation. The Bitcoin ...

Some in a special unit of 50 lawyers and staff members that had been assigned to regulate cryptocurrency are being reassigned ...