The company has ‘not accredited’ the itemizing and buying and selling of spot bitcoin ETFs, chair Gary Gensler says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account has been hacked, a spokesperson confirmed with Ztoog on Tuesday afternoon.
“The SEC’s @SECGov X/Twitter account has been compromised. The unauthorized tweet regarding bitcoin ETFs was not made by the SEC or its staff,” the spokesperson stated. The same assertion was shared shortly after on the media platform.
The publish, proven in a screenshot under, was up for about half-hour, inflicting quite a few information shops and on-line personalities to report that the SEC granted approval for the extremely anticipated spot bitcoin ETFs. The unauthorized publish has since been deleted.
Around 4:30 p.m. EST, SEC Chair Gary Gensler tweeted, “The @SECGov twitter account was compromised, and an unauthorized tweet was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.”
After the pretend publish went out, Bitcoin’s value spiked close to $48,000 however has since fallen to round $45,700, in accordance with CoinMarketCap information.