The hacker, a 25-year-old Alabama man, pretended to be an FBI employee while at an AT&T store to pull off the 'SIM swap,' ...

To carry out this scheme, Council is accused of creating a fake ID using the information belonging to the person in control ...

The FBI arrested Eric Council Jr. who used the SEC's X account to post a fake BTC ETF approval in January, causing a price ...

Eric Council Jr. allegedly hijacked the SEC's X account and then handed control to unnamed co-conspirators, whose fake post ...

A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account this ...

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Council allegedly used the stolen personal information of an unnamed victim as well as an iPhone to break through the X ...

Eric Council Jr. was arrested Thursday morning, and charged with allegedly hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

My "I did not hack the SEC's X account" shirt is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

An Alabama man was arrested on Thursday over criminal charges that he hacked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X ...

According to court documents, Eric Council Jr went under the aliases Ronin, Easymunny, and AGiantSchnauzer online, and ...

How did a hacker take over the SEC’s Twitter account back in January? It turns out the culprit resorted to pretending to be an FBI employee. On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it had ...