Based mostly on present info, workers understands that, shortly after 4:00 pm ET on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, an unauthorized occasion gained entry to the @SECGov X.com account by acquiring management over the cellphone quantity related to the account. The unauthorized occasion made one put up at 4:11 pm ET purporting to announce the Fee’s approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, in addition to a second put up roughly two minutes later that stated “$BTC.” The unauthorized occasion subsequently deleted the second put up, however not the primary. Utilizing the @SECGov account, the unauthorized occasion additionally favored two posts by non-SEC accounts. Whereas SEC workers remains to be assessing the scope of the incident, there may be presently no proof that the unauthorized occasion gained entry to SEC methods, information, gadgets, or different social media accounts.
