The importance of security of the channels for digital communication from the government was proven again in the case of the X account hack yesterday. The official US Securities and Exchange Commission account on the X social network posted a message yesterday announcing that the government agency approved the first-ever bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).
This text, alongside the statement of the US SEC chair Gary Gensler, was posted on the official channel for a few minutes and then deleted. In reaction to this event, Gary Gensler’s X account posted a message claiming that the official SEC account was hacked and that the SEC had not approved the bitcoin ETF.
