Hacker suspected of hacking into SEC X account in January allowed to travel during the holidays

Odaily Planet Daily News hacked the US SEC X account in January this year and released a message suggesting that the BTCSpot ETF has been approved by the Hacker Eric Council Jr. will be allowed to travel during the holidays. Judge Amy Berman Jackson recently filed a document in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, saying that the Council could travel to North Carolina with a third-party custodian between December 23 and 29. The judge said the Council “must provide its precise itinerary and information about its place of stay to pretrial services at least two business days prior to travel.” ”（Cointelegraph）

Earlier in October, news came that federal prosecutors in the United States planned to offer a plea agreement to an Alabama man who was accused of participating in the January hacker attack on the X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as posting a false social media post approving the first BTCSpot ETF. The US prosecutor told the judge at the hearing in the Washington Federal Court, ‘We will propose a plea agreement, but we don’t know if he will accept it.’ According to reports, 25-year-old Eric Council Jr. pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to commit aggravated identity theft and using an access device to commit fraud during the hearing. Council’s cooperation may help prosecutors track down his accomplices in this case. It is alleged that these accomplices obtained access to the SEC account by using stolen personal information from an SEC employee.