Mastermind Behind SEC SIM Swapping Scheme Sentenced to 14 Months in Prison for Manipulating Bitcoin Price

The man who hacked an X account associated with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year has been sentenced to 14 months behind bars for manipulating the value of Bitcoin BTC BTC - $100659.715 In a new press release, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia says that Eric Council Jr.

Source: dailyhodl.com

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2025-05-18 18:52:02 GMT.

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Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2010. Users are able to generate BTC through the process of mining. Bitcoin has a current supply of 19,882,350. The last known price of Bitcoin is 100,844.85124809 USD and is down -0.88 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 12224 active market(s) with $66,182,036,152.93 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://bitcoin.org/.