Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee want the SEC to brief them on the recent hack of the agency's social media account no later than next week.
In a letter sent Wednesday to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, the lawmakers noted that, X, formerly Twitter, said a hacker used a phone number associated with the SEC account and that the federal agency did not have a two-factor authentication security feature in place to help prevent unauthorized access.
While the SEC account was compromised on Tuesday evening, it tweeted a message claiming the commission granted approval for bitcoin exchange-traded funds to be listed on national securities exchanges.
On Wednesday, the agency actually did approve the listing of such funds.
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Martin Matishak is the senior cybersecurity reporter for The Record.
Prior to joining Recorded Future News in 2021, he spent more than five years at Politico, where he covered digital and national security developments across Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community.
He previously was a reporter at The Hill, National Journal Group and Inside Washington Publishers.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:35:34 +0000