SEC X Account Hack Draws Senate Outrage
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Following a Jan. 9 compromise of the SEC's official X account that used a stolen phone number to publish misleading bitcoin-related messages, Senators Ron Wyden and Cynthia Lummis urged the SEC Inspector General to investigate the agency's failure to implement multifactor authentication—particularly phishing-resistant hardware tokens—warning that such lapses could enable market manipulation and undermine investor trust.
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