An HCSO deputy stopped an elderly woman from depositing $13K in a Bitcoin ATM scam. She was told to deposit funds after ...

Eric Council Jr. from Athens, Alabama, confessed to his role in a scheme involving the unauthorized takeover of the SEC's X ...

An Alabama man has admitted his role in a scheme that involved hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Twitter account and disseminating false information to manipulate the price ...

The U.S. will release Russian Alexander Vinnik—who ran the BTC-e crypto exchange—in a prisoner swap after Moscow released an ...

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

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

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to hacking the Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account and manipulating Bitcoin prices.

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 ...

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 admitted hacking into the US Security and Exchange Commission’s X account using SIM swap fraud to gain access ...

Council’s plea was entered before U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the District of Columbia. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to three years ...