Eric Council Jr., 26, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of accompanied release on Friday to participate in the hack of the official X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The US Department of Justice has announced the conviction A press release. The Council and other hackers took over the X account of the SEC in 2024 to incorrectly announce that the Bitcoin -grant office had approved funds or ETFs, which shot the price of the cryptocurrency before he dropped later.
According to the DOJ, Council and his fellow samplers carried out a SIM swap attack on the mobile telephone account of a person who had access to the X account of the SEC, so that the hackers could take control of their telephone number. From there, the hackers have reset the password of the X account of the sec, giving them control over the account.
