Counbase, co-deviso co-money Co-Devise, listed at the Nasdaq underwent a serious security incident during which customer data was stolen, finding itself in the hands of criminals requiring a ransom of 20 million US dollars.
Coinbase, which sees negotiation volumes between 3.25 billion US dollars at $ 4.4 billion per day as the largest exchange in the United States, said The criminals “welded and recruited a group of supporting officers abroad VOYOUS” to steal data from it.
The stolen data had to be used “to facilitate social engineering attacks”.
The Crypto Exchange said that it would not pay the ransom and rather created a reward fund of $ 20 million for information leading to the arrest and the conviction of the criminals in question.
Less than one percent of data for monthly Coinbase users have been taken, but attackers obtained sensitive information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
They were also able to obtain government identification images such as driving licenses and passports, accounting data with Balance snapshots and transactions history.
Business limited data have also been taken, as well as a small number of American social security numbers for customers and bank account numbers, which were masked, so only the latest figures were visible.
No private digital button, connection identification information or two -factor authentication codes has been taken. Criminals could not move or access customer funds, Coinbase Prime Accounts or one of the hot or cold clients or customers portfolios.
Customers who have to send funds to attackers will be reimbursed, said Coinbase.
Coinbase too informed The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the cost of the attack could be $ 180 million to US $ 400 million; “Regarding repair costs and voluntary reimbursements of customers concerning this incident, before a more in -depth examination of potential losses, compensation allegations and potential recovery, which could significantly increase or decrease this estimate.”
The attack follows the dry drop a cornerbase box In February of this year, after the Trump administration took care of.
However, Coinbase this week confirmed that the dry investigated the exchange for disturbing its number of users.
Coinbase denies any reprehensible act and says that the investigation is a deduction from the Biden administration, on a metric which he stopped reporting two and a half years ago.
