> As set forth in the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose any information that could reveal a whistleblower’s identity.

This would seem to preclude any way of independently verifying their claims.

Realistically, to prove that there existed a whistleblower and this is not just marketing by the SEC, you would need incredible amounts of evidence, and even then you'd have no way of knowing whether the evidence is fabricated. At some level I think you end up just having to trust that the SEC isn't lying about paying whistleblowers.

They only do these press releases when they issue rewards. They don't include details to protect the whistleblower's identity.

These days even if they said who the whistleblower was people might suppose they were a "crisis actor."

Because not all of us are conspiracists?