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