Eric Council, Jr. will spend two years in prison for an identity theft scheme that led to a false post by the SEC on X that ...

The Alabama man took over the SEC's X account to falsely post that the agency had approved Bitcoin ETFs, sending the ...

The US will release a Russian national as part of a prisoner exchange that brought home American schoolteacher Marc Fogel.

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to participating in the hack of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account that ...

An Alabama man has admitted to taking part in a January 2024 hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media ...

An Alabama man has pled guilty to hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account last year and faces ...

The United States has released Alexander Vinnik, the Russian co-founder of the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-e cryptocurrency exchange, as part of a ...

Eric Council, aka "Ronin," of Georgia, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft.

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.

An Alabama resident on Monday confessed to hacking the SEC’s X account and posting a fake Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded fund approval message, causing millions of dollars in market losses.

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account and manipulating Bitcoin prices. Twenty-five-year-old Eric Council Jr. was admitted in a Washington, D.C.