The US Securities and Exchange Commission said its X account was compromised, and a post claiming the regulator had approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products was unauthorised.

The @SECGov X account was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.

— U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (@SECGov) January 9, 2024

Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, said:

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.

— Gary Gensler (@GaryGensler) January 9, 2024

🚨BREAKING: Senators @JDVance1 & @SenThomTillis Demand Explanation For The SEC's Errant Announcement Of The Approval Of Spot-Bitcoin ETFs

"It is unacceptable that the agency entrusted with regulating the epicenter of the world’s capital markets would make such a colossal error." pic.twitter.com/xG77jM9xAM

— Senator Vance Press Office (@SenVancePress) January 10, 2024

Just like the SEC would demand accountability from a public company if they made such a colossal market-moving mistake, Congress needs answers on what just happened. This is unacceptable. https://t.co/tWtLqHtqpu

— Senator Bill Hagerty (@SenatorHagerty) January 9, 2024

On TV right on talking about this.. and yes, I think someone prepped a planned tweet and put wrong date, bc the tweet would have made PERFECT sense tomorrow at this time. The language sounds legit SEC-ish IMO vs a crypto knucklehead pulling a prank but I guess we'll see.. https://t.co/lP6Nghi6fq

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) January 9, 2024

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…

— Safety (@Safety) January 10, 2024

Just remember: Because bitcoin is a commodity and the securities wrappers aren't trading (yet), if this hack was done for market manipulation purposes it's in the CFTC's jurisdiction.

— Todd Phillips (@tphillips) January 9, 2024

Should have listened to the SEC about the SEC https://t.co/BphLK1AJfA

— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) January 9, 2024

SEC Twitter account security pic.twitter.com/xAdU8mE5Zv

— null.eth (@null_eth) January 9, 2024

pic.twitter.com/fZoB3cyJMG

— Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) January 9, 2024

.@NYCStein is right: the fake @SECGov news was an incredible ⁦@BloombergTV⁩ moment w/ ⁦@RomaineBostick⁩ & ⁦@scarletfu⁩. Hopefully people will still listen to what I had to say b/c much of it was about the implications of approval not just why they shouldn't have approved it https://t.co/Qa0vScf9nb

— Dennis Kelleher (@DennisKelleher) January 9, 2024

JUST IN: Edward Snowden tells SEC Chair Gary Gensler "get your shit together." pic.twitter.com/Y7YaayoQnJ

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) January 9, 2024