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Coinbase data breach exposes customer info and government IDs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] kid@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Post from Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas. They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support tools for less than 1% of Coinbase monthly transacting users. Their aim was to gather a customer list they could contact while pretending to be Coinbase—tricking people into handing over their crypto. They then tried to extort Coinbase for $20 million to cover this up. We said no.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

If your data was accessed, you have already received an email from no-reply@info.coinbase.com; all notifications went out at 7:20 a.m. ET on 5/15 to affected customers.