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The SEC’s Official X Account Was ‘Compromised’

Simon Osuji by Simon Osuji
January 9, 2024
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The official X account of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was “compromised” this afternoon, resulting in the publication of an “unauthorized” post, according to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. The account, @SECGov, also said the account had been compromised.

It is currently unclear what the nature of the “compromise” is. The SEC has not yet responded to WIRED’s request for comment. X also did not yet respond.

The @SECGov account published a post this afternoon regarding the regulatory status of Bitcoin ETFs, a financial product that would allow people to invest in bitcoin like standard stocks. The post has since been deleted.

The fake post appeared to lead to a brief spike in Bitcoin’s value of around 2.5 percent, to nearly $47,870, before crashing around 3.2 percent from its original price.

This is at least the second high-profile compromise of an X account in recent days. Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity firm now owned by Google, had its X account hacked last Wednesday. A scammer used their access to post a malicious link in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency from victims.

The SEC account’s compromise is arguably the most consequential hijacking of a public figure’s Twitter account since 2020, when three young hackers tricked Twitter employees into giving them access to a power internal tool that allowed them to take control of users’ profiles.

They used it to post a scam messages to the accounts of users including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Kim Kardashian offering to donate twice the amount of any payment users sent to the hackers’ Bitcoin addresses back to the sender. The scam netted nearly $120,000 within minutes before the messages could be deleted. In that case, the three hackers were identified—in part thanks to cryptocurrency tracing evidence left on Bitcoin’s blockchain—and arrested within two weeks.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.





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