Data Breach Nightmare: Coinbase Leak Could Result In Users ‘Dying’, Expert Warns
Coinbase is under scrutiny after confirming a security breach that exposed personal information of some of its users. The crypto exchange said fewer than 1% of its monthly transacting users were affected. Still, that small slice could mean thousands of people. According to reports, the attack could end up costing Coinbase as much as $400 […]
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On Tuesday morning, a link submitted on the popular social sharing website Reddit.com, which linked to Pastebin, displayed the email addresses and full names over over 2,000 individuals, raising concern that there was a data breach at some level at bitcoin brokerage Coinbase. The San Francisco-based company has taken to their official blog to address the matter today. This list (the size of which is less than one half of one percent of Coinbase users) was not the result of a data breach at Coinbase. This list of emails was likely sourced from other sites - probably Bitcoin related ones.....
In this day and age, no source of information is safe from prying eyes and hackers attempting to breach databases. Every so often, a company will accidentally leak confidential data, to great chagrin of affected individuals. In the case of a London HIV clinic, the leak of patient data could prove to be quite costly. There is no better time for decentralized record-keeping solutions and blockchain technology it seems. Imagine being a HIV patient, and finding out your personal details have been leaked “on accident” by the clinic you entrusted the information to. Data leaks do not occur....
Ledger wallet users face mounting home invasion and other scareware threats as hacker dumps private customer information online. The hacker likely responsible for Ledger’s security breach in July recently dumped a large amount of data exposing the personal information of over 270,000 customers, including phone numbers and physical addresses. The leak also included 1 million emails of Ledger wallet owners and customers that were signed up to the company’s newsletter service.Amid the furor caused by the incident, Ledger says its focus is on improving its security infrastructure rather than....
A cybersecurity expert claimed the affected users would be targeted online and in person now that their personal information had been made public. The hacker that breached hardware wallet provider Ledger’s marketing database earlier this year has released personal data for thousands of users, prompting many to threaten the firm with a class-action lawsuit.According to a tweet from network security firm Hudson Rock's Alon Gal, a hacker allegedly behind the breach of personal data from hardware wallet Ledger in June has made all the information they obtained available online. This reportedly....
The user claimed to have lost a massive amount of money due to Bithumb’s negligence. According to news agency Yonhap, Bithumb will not have to repay a crypto investor who allegedly lost $401,000 as a result of a 2017 data breach suffered by the firm.A High Court judge determined that the man (identified as “Mr. A” for privacy purposes) had failed to successfully prove that his data was compromised during the incident. As a result, the exchange will not be held liable for Mr. A’s lost funds.Mr. A stated that he was holding Korean won (KRW) funds on the exchange and that the data breach had....