SEC Twitter Hacker Gets 14 Months for Bitcoin Pump Scheme—Because Crime Doesn’t HODL

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2025-05-16 20:32:59

Man Who Hacked SEC’s X Account to Pump Bitcoin Gets 14 Months in Prison

Another day, another crypto criminal learns the hard way that blockchain is forever—especially when the feds are watching.

The mastermind behind January’s high-profile SEC X account hack—which briefly sent Bitcoin prices soaring on fake ETF approval news—just got slapped with 14 months in federal prison. Turns out ’trustless systems’ still trust subpoenas.

While the crypto-sphere debates whether this counts as ’institutional adoption,’ the rest of Wall Street chuckles into their $27 artisanal coffees. At least someone’s finally bringing accountability to crypto... even if it had to come from a courtroom.

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