Primarily based 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 stated “$BTC.” The unauthorized get together subsequently deleted the second submit, however not the primary. Utilizing the @SECGov account, the unauthorized get together additionally favored two posts by non-SEC accounts. Whereas SEC employees remains to be assessing the scope of the incident, there may be at present no proof that the unauthorized get together gained entry to SEC techniques, knowledge, units, or different social media accounts.
