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SEC hacker’s opsec was comical - but SIM swaps are no laughing matter

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A US man has been indicted for hacking the SEC’s X (previously Twitter) account and using it to pump up the price of Bitcoin earlier this year.An indictment suggests that he pretended to be an FBI employee as part of a social engineering campaign to gain access to the X channel. Eric Council Jr., 25, of Athens, Alabama, was arrested by the FBI on the morning of October 17. He had used his access to the channel to post that the markets watchdog h…

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