Other government agencies would be smart to get off of Twitter at this point.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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I agree. It's definitely compromised at this point, along with Elon.
"Wait, you can't insider trade before i insider trade. That's not fair!"
Congress, 2024
1 bitcoin says it was Elon.
I’ll put my 5 completely genuine NFT’s up against your bitcoin.
I have about 5000 doge. I'll also spit in my 4 GME. Let the fight commence!
Why did the SEC have an X account?
I wondered the same thing. These agencies want to be seen as hip and with the times. It’s leadership is always thinking about their next gig in the private sector they claim to regulate.
While Twitter is the poster child for all that's wrong with the internet, it is a popular communications platform. As such, it's better for organizations like the SEC to have an official account than not. With an official account, which is advertised on the official SEC website, there can be some confidence about what idiot posting stuff on the platform is actually the real idiot from the SEC. That said, based on previous reporting of the breach
While X did not respond to WIRED's request for comment, the company confirmed the breach of the @SECGov account in a post on X. “We can confirm that the account @SECGov was compromised and we have completed a preliminary investigation. Based on our investigation, the compromise was not due to any breach of X’s systems, but rather due to an unidentified individual obtaining control over a phone number associated with the @SECGov account through a third party,” the company wrote. “We can also confirm that the account did not have two-factor authentication enabled at the time the account was compromised.”
At this point, the fact that the official SEC account didn't have two-factor authentication (2FA) turned on should be a Resume Generating Event for the entire management. If you aren't smart enough to turn on 2FA for anything and everything important, you're too stupid to be in charge of anything more advanced than an etch-a-sketch.