The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a statement regarding the hacking of the official Twitter account and the fake spot Bitcoin ETF approval announcement.
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler made a statement on his official website on January 12 about the fake spot Bitcoin ETF that was shared by hacking the SEC’s Twitter account on January 9.
According to the statements made, on Tuesday, January 9, recently unauthorized Someone obtained the phone number linked to the account. He shared that the person’s spot Bitcoin ETF approval was given by the SEC and “$BTC”. While the second post was later removed, the first post remained for a long time.
While the SEC stated that it is continuing to investigate who the person who carried out the attack was, what other sources did it use? that you have captured or that you can pass it there is no evidence he stated.
SEC regarding the sharing in question Twitter (X) He contacted and requested account recovery. Person’s approx. account for 50 minutes It is estimated that he has.
The SEC had activated the FBI to find people who hacked the official account and shared spot Bitcoin ETF approval posts.