Published on: 2025-06-08 12:17:52
A recently disclosed data breach at Coinbase has been linked to India-based customer support representatives from outsourcing firm TaskUs, who threat actors bribed to steal data from the crypto exchange. According to Reuters, who spoke to numerous TaskUs employees, the data breach was first discovered in January after a TaskUs employee was caught capturing photos of her computer screen using a personal device. Reportedly, the incident was witnessed by multiple TaskUs employees, and during the
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Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, revealed in a notice to the Maine attorney general's office that 69,461 people were affected by last week's data breach by extortionists. Login credentials, two-factor authentication codes and private keys were not exposed in the breach, nor were the bad actors able to gain individual account access to investors' funds. But cybercriminals are in possession of the following: Names Addresses Phone numbers Emails Partial Social Security
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Die by the Bitcoin: As kidnappings tied to crypto investments rise, some feel that exchanges like Coinbase aren't doing enough to protect their users. Criminals now have access to home addresses and account balances, and if the situation worsens, people won't just lose money – they could lose their lives. Coinbase recently disclosed a serious security breach in which unknown cybercriminals accessed highly sensitive user data. While the company works to contain the fallout, the cryptocurrency ex
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In Brief Coinbase said at least 69,461 customers had personal and financial information stolen during a months-long data breach that it disclosed last week. The crypto giant confirmed the number of affected customers in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday, as required by the state’s data breach notification law. Coinbase’s filing said the breach dates back to December 26, 2024, and continued until earlier this month, when the company said it received a “credible” ransom note f
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In Brief Coinbase said at least 69,461 customers had personal and financial information stolen during a months-long data breach that it disclosed last week. The crypto giant confirmed the number of affected customers in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday, as required by the state’s data breach notification law. Coinbase’s filing said the breach dates back to December 26, 2024, and continued until earlier this month, when the company said it received a “credible” ransom note f
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Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer and corporate data affected 69,461 individuals. In data breach notifications filed with the Office of Maine's Attorney General, Coinbase said, "a small number of individuals, performing services for Coinbase at our overseas retail support locations, improperly accessed customer information." While the exposed data did not include the impacted people's p
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In Brief Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. While cryptocurrencies have always created unique security risks, it seems there’s a rising threat of violent abduction due to the growing value of Bitcoin, as well as new concerns after a recent Coinbase breach exposed customers’ personal information. (Coinbase said
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 07:15:00
What just happened? As the crypto industry continues to evolve and attract mainstream attention, the latest incident at Coinbase highlights the ongoing risks and the urgent need for stronger security measures. The company's response – refusing to pay ransom, cooperating with authorities, and compensating affected customers – may set a precedent for how major players in the sector handle such crises going forward. Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is facing sign
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Coinbase says cyber criminals “bribed and recruited” support workers to help steal customer data and trick victims into sending money to attackers. As a result of the attack, bad actors obtained the names, addresses, phone numbers, government IDs images, account data, and partial social security numbers of a “small subset of users,” according to a b
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Leading crypto firm Coinbase faces up to $400m hit from cyber attack 42 minutes ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images One of the world's biggest cryptocurrency firms, Coinbase, says a recent cyber attack will cost it up to $400m (£301m). The firm said it was contacted by hackers who claimed to have gained access to customer information, obtained by making payments to Coinbase contractors and employees. In a blog post, Coinbase said the criminals had gained acce
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Coinbase on Thursday reported that cybercriminals bribed overseas support agents to steal customer data to use in social engineering attacks. The incident may cost Coinbase up to $400 million to fix, the company estimated. The crypto exchange operator received an email on May 11 from someone claiming they obtained information about certain Coinbase customer accounts as well as other internal Coinbase documentation, including materials relating to customer service and account management systems,
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Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, has disclosed that cybercriminals working with rogue support agents stole customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom not to publish the stolen information. The company said it would not pay the ransom but would establish a $20 million reward fund for any leads that could help find the attackers who coordinated this attack. The disclosure comes after the criminals behind the breach emailed Coinbase on May 11, demanding a
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A Coinbase hack has seen some customers tricked into sending funds to the attackers, with the company estimating that they suffered losses of somewhere between $180M and $400M. The attackers also stole personal data, after Coinbase refused to pay a ransom demand – instead reporting the hack to law enforcement, and offering a $20M reward for information on the perpetrators … Reuters reports that the crypto company’s shares fell following the disclosure. Coinbase forecast a hit between $180 mil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 01:58:30
Crypto giant Coinbase has confirmed its systems have been breached and customer data, including government-issued identity documents, were stolen. In a legally required filing with U.S. regulators, Coinbase said a hacker this week told the company that they had obtained information about customer accounts, and demanded money from the company in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. Coinbase said the hacker “obtained this information by paying multiple contractors or employees working in
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Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Coinbase shares soared 24% on Tuesday, their sharpest rally since the day after President Donald Trump's election victory, following the crypto exchange's inclusion in the S&P 500. S&P Global said in a release late Monday that Coinbase is replacing Discover Financial Services, which is in the process of being acquired by Capital One Financial . Th
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Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Coinbase shares soared more than 20% on Tuesday and headed for their sharpest rally since the day after President Donald Trump's election victory following the crypto exchange's inclusion in the S&P 500. S&P Global said in a release late Monday that Coinbase is replacing Discover Financial Services, which is in the process of being acquired by Cap
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 00:02:47
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Coinbase is joining the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services in the benchmark index, according to a release on Monday. Shares of the crypto exchange jumped 8% in extended trading. The change will take effect before trading on May 19. Discover is in the process of being acquired by Capital One Financial . Since going public through a direct listin
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Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Coinbase is joining the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services in the benchmark index, according to a release on Monday. Shares of the crypto exchange jumped 8% in extended trading. The change will take effect before trading on May 19. Discover is in the process of being acquired by Capital One Financial. Since going public through a direct listing
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The Coinbase logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages on the background. Coinbase agreed to acquire Dubai-based Deribit, a major crypto derivatives exchange, for $2.9 billion, the largest deal in the crypto industry to date. The company said Thursday that the cost comprises $700 million in cash and 11 million shares of Coinbase class A common stock. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year. Shares of Coinbase rose nearly 6%. The acquisition positions
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Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised. As BleepingComputer first reported earlier this month, Coinbase had mistakenly labeled failed login attempts with incorrect passwords as two-factor authentication failues in the Account Activity logs. When a threat actor attempted to access someone's account and used the wrong password, error messages stating "second_factor_failure" or "2-step verification failed" woul
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PayPal will roll out a new rewards program for its cryptocurrency, PYUSD, this summer. Affirm PayPal is shaking up the cryptocurrency space with two big changes, including a new rewards system and a new partnership with Coinbase for PYUSD stablecoin, PayPal's cryptocurrency that launched in 2023. The world of cryptocurrency is constantly evolving, but these changes could be important if you're holding PYSUD in your PayPal or Venmo wallet. Here's what the two announcements Thursday mean for yo
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Oregon’s Attorney General is planning to file a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. That is according to the company’s chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, who wrote in a post on X that the state is “resurrecting the dead” by filing a case similar to the one dropped by the U.S. Department of Justice under President Trump. “Today the Oregon Attorney General is resurrecting the dead by bringing a copycat case of @SECGov‘s enforcement action against Coinbase,” Grewal wrote. “As a remind
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Daniel Ruskin started his career when he was a mere 14 years old as an engineer for Coinbase. As he tells it, he was a teenager “who knew how to code and wanted to build cool things.” Obviously too young to get a bank account, Ruskin did freelance development work he found on reddit in exchange for bitcoin. There he saw that Coinbase was hiring, and boldly sent the head of operations a cold email asking if he could work for the crypto exchange. “Long story short, I ended up writing much of the
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Coinbase is fixing a misleading account activity message that has caused confusion and anxiety, making users think their credentials were compromised. Over the past couple of weeks, numerous people have contacted BleepingComputer about concerns that they think Coinbase has a serious security issue. After receiving Coinbase phishing emails or texts, they logged into their accounts and checked the activity log, finding numerous entries stating "second_factor_failure" or "2-step verification fail
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Researchers have determined that Coinbase was the primary target in a recent GitHub Actions cascading supply chain attack that compromised secrets in hundreds of repositories. According to new reports from Palo Alto Unit 42 and Wiz, the attack was carefully planned and began when malicious code was injected into reviewdog/action-setup@v1 GitHub Action. It is unclear how the breach occurred, but the threat actors modified the action to dump CI/CD secrets and authentication tokens into GitHub Act
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A large-scale Coinbase phishing attack poses as a mandatory wallet migration, tricking recipients into setting up a new wallet with a pre-generated recovery phrase controlled by attackers. The emails have a subject of "Migrate to Coinbase Wallet" and state that all customers must transition to self-custodial wallets. The email also provides instructions on how to download the legitimate Coinbase Wallet. "As of March 14th, Coinbase is transitioning to self-custodial wallets. Following a class a
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Patrick Collison, chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe Inc., left, smiles as John Collison, president and co-founder of Stripe Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, March 23, 2018. Stripe has once again shown why sometimes it's better to be private. During a February sell-off for fintech stocks, Block plunged 28%, its steepest decline since 2023, alongside drops of 20% or more for PayPal and Coinbase and a 8%
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Patrick Collison, chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe Inc., left, smiles as John Collison, president and co-founder of Stripe Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Studio 1.0 television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, March 23, 2018. Stripe has once again shown why sometimes it's better to be private. During a February sell-off for fintech stocks, Block plunged almost 30%, its steepest decline since 2022, alongside drops of 20% or more for PayPal and Coinbase an
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Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again. The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s Commissioners, is yet another signal that the Trump administration plans to be more friendly to crypto than the SEC was under former leader Gary Gensler. The SEC’s lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that crypto assets were securities and that Coinbase was operating as “an unregistered national securities
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-12 21:00:10
Coinbase boss claims SEC will drop crypto lawsuit Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong said the potential dismissal of the lawsuit would be "hugely vindicating". Its boss Brian Armstrong said in a post on X on Friday that "an agreement" had been reached with the regulator's staff to dismiss the legal action which would see it pay no fines or make any changes to how it operates, when confirmed. The US regulator alleged in 2023 that Coinbase had violated laws by offering investments that ar
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