On Tuesday, the SEC’s official X (previously Twitter) account, @SECgov, tweeted that the company had authorised plenty of spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) purposes to start buying and selling, a message that was finally proven to be faked by somebody who was capable of achieve entry to the account via the cellphone quantity related to it. On Friday, the SEC assertion offered a timeline of occasions on Tuesday, saying the primary “unauthorized publish” got here at 4:11 p.m. ET (21:11 UTC), and SEC Chair Gary Gensler printed his clarification quarter-hour later.