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.
If your data was accessed, you have already received an email from [email protected]; all notifications went out at 7:20 a.m. ET on 5/15 to affected customers.
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Coinbase data breach exposes customer info and government IDs | Spyke
Post from Coinbase: https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists