RobDownSouth
You Saw What He Did
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The Security and Exchange Commission had its Twitter account hacked this morning.
The account was immediately recovered within 10 minutes, but not before the hackers posted a single Tweet, a false claim that effective immediately, the SEC would approve Bitcoin listings on stock exchanges.
Here is the fake tweet:
The unregulated Bitcoin market had a collective financial spasm the likes of which no one had ever seen
Bitcoin valuations plummeted one half a billion dollars within 30 minutes after the tweet was announced to have been a fake
Obligatory "oops our bad!" mea culpa
The account was immediately recovered within 10 minutes, but not before the hackers posted a single Tweet, a false claim that effective immediately, the SEC would approve Bitcoin listings on stock exchanges.
Here is the fake tweet:
The unregulated Bitcoin market had a collective financial spasm the likes of which no one had ever seen
Bitcoin valuations plummeted one half a billion dollars within 30 minutes after the tweet was announced to have been a fake
Obligatory "oops our bad!" mea culpa