The US Securities and Exchange Commission on 22 January 2024 revealed that hackers used SIM swapping to take over its X (formerly Twitter) account. The hack occurred on 09 January 2024, when a post sent from the agency’s @SECGov account on the social platform announced that a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) was approved. The post caused the price of bitcoin to spike more than $1,000. Shortly after the post, the SEC Chairman announced on his personal account that the SEC’s acc
