Based mostly on present info, employees understands that, shortly after 4:00 pm ET on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, an unauthorized social gathering gained entry to the @SECGov X.com account by acquiring management over the telephone quantity related to the account. The unauthorized social gathering made one publish at 4:11 pm ET purporting to announce the Fee’s approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, in addition to a second publish roughly two minutes later that stated “$BTC.” The unauthorized social gathering subsequently deleted the second publish, however not the primary. Utilizing the @SECGov account, the unauthorized social gathering additionally favored two posts by non-SEC accounts. Whereas SEC employees continues to be assessing the scope of the incident, there’s at the moment no proof that the unauthorized social gathering gained entry to SEC techniques, information, gadgets, or different social media accounts.
SEC Assertion on the Hack of Its X Account and the Ensuing Pretend Bitcoin ETF Approval Announcement
