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

An Alabama man was arrested Thursday for his alleged role in the January hack of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...

FBI officials arrested an Alabama man Thursday for allegedly hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this ...

FBI agents on Thursday morning arrested a 25-year-old Alabama man on charges related to the hack in January of the Securities ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

Alabama man arrested by FBI in connection with the January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account.

The incident sparked criticism of the SEC, the top US markets regulator, and renewed concerns over security on the social ...

Eric Council Jr. arrested for hacking SEC's Twitter, causing a temporary $1,000 spike in Bitcoin prices with a fake ETF ...

Remember when the SEC's Twitter account was hacked to prematurely share that Bitcoin ETFs were approved? The FBI has arrested ...

An Alabama man was charged over the January hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account ahead of its ...

On October 17, 2024, the FBI arrested 25-year-old Eric Council Jr. of Athens, Alabama, in connection with the January 9 hack ...