It will take at least a week for the SEC to make an official request. Funds would have settled and you can call up and wire the money away. Never seen it with stocks but have seen in on deposit accounts. One of the biggest issues with online banks is fake accounts that are used as mule accounts to move stolen money. Authentication in the us is weak and based around SSN and credit history which isn’t hard to buy. Want a billion dollar idea, solve that with out using things like sending a verification code in the mail to an address on active account in the person credit history.

You mean the deep OTM daily put options

What are they going to ask? Why did you short the most shorted stock in America? Why did you later close your short position, locking in a large profit?

I'd be surprised if that even got you interviewed, let alone searched for hacking tools.

Unless they've fingered you by some other means, in which case it's irrelevant how you were planning to get the money out.