Customer Bitcoins Stolen in Purse Email Breach
Bitcoin startup Purse said today that 10.235 BTC (roughly $2,500) in customer funds were stolen over the weekend during a security incident. Eleven customers had their accounts emptied, according to Purse representatives, who reported they had covered the bitcoins withdrawn with company funds. Claims that funds were stolen first emerged over the weekend, with customers reporting that they had received emails about password resets and withdrawals. Purse.io's website was later taken offline for several hours. The bitcoin-focused e-commerce company said on 11th October that it believed one of....
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Users of Bitcoin-pushing shopping marketplace Purse.io were the targets of a hack originating from unauthorized password reset emails that affected 11 users in total with 10.235 bitcoin withdrawn due to the compromise. Purse.io users were the target of hackers who may have gained access and compromised a third-party email service provider user by the company, by its own statement released on its blog. Purse.io has since confirmed the compromise of users' wallets and has also stated that all affected user accounts have been reimbursed. The company has experience in successfully dealing with....
Hong Kong digital currency exchange Bitfinex has taken its trading platform offline following a reported hack that resulted in the theft of customer funds. According to a statement posted on its website, Bitfinex has suspended trading, deposits and withdrawals. Both the number of customers impacted and the exact amount lost in the breach are unclear at this time. Bitfinex said: "We are investigating the breach to determine what happened, but we know that some of our users have had their bitcoins stolen. We are undertaking a review to determine which users have been affected by the....
Prominent Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has announced that it has halted all trading on its platform while investigating a breach that has seen customers lose their funds due to theft. Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has halted all trading on its platform, including all deposits and withdrawals. An announcement on its website has confirmed that Bitfinex users have had their bitcoins stolen, while the exchange investigates the security breach. No figures on the stolen bitcoin or the number of users impacted have been revealed yet. The statement read: We are investigating the breach to....
It is not the first time Celsius' customer emails have been exploited and leaked online. Celsius depositors should be on the lookout for phishing scams after the company revealed some of its customer data has been leaked in a third-party data breach. On July 26, Celsius sent an email to its customers informing them that a list of their emails had been leaked by an employee of one of its business data management and messaging vendors. According to Celsius, the breach came from an engineer at the Customer.io messaging platform who leaked the data to a third-party bad actor.“We were recently....
Bitcoin lending platform Loanbase — formerly BitLendingClub — was the target of a recent security breach that saw a small number compromised user accounts lose at least 8 bitcoins. In an email sent to its customers yesterday, Loanbase revealed that it had discovered a security breach that occurred on the morning of February 6, 2016. The news was also shared on the company’s Facebook page, noting that the exploit targeted a security vulnerability in the WordPress blog. Preliminary investigation confirmed the breach of 4 user accounts and a loss of around 8 bitcoins (approx. $3000), although....