SEC Statement on the Hack of Its X Account and the Resulting Fake Bitcoin ETF Approval Announcement

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 telephone 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 preferred two posts by non-SEC accounts. Whereas SEC employees continues to be assessing the scope of the incident, there may be at present no proof that the unauthorized get together gained entry to SEC programs, information, gadgets, or different social media accounts.