69,461 people who were affected by the violation of Coinbase data, exposing headlines, account balances, government identifiers and partial social security numbers

Coinbase Legal Team says that recently disclosed data has affected 69,461 people.

A presentation The Public Prosecutor’s Office in the state of Mine is determined by the huge scope of breach, which occurred in late December but did not discover by Coinbase until the time earlier this month.

Exchange He says The criminals bribe a small group of customer support agents abroad to copy data less than 1 % of the company’s monthly transactions.

Coinbase notes that the penetration information includes the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, convincing social security numbers (last 4 numbers), the bank’s convincing account numbers, some bank account identifiers, government acquaintances, account data and company limited data. The stock exchange says that the affected customers were notified by email on May 15.

Coinbase learned about the penetration after receiving an email earlier this month, calling for a $ 20 million bitcoin reward (BTC) in exchange for not issuing the information obtained illegally. The company refused to surrender to the request of infiltrators and estimate that it would pay 180 million dollars to $ 400 million of treatment costs and voluntary compensation for customers.

In a video posted on the social media platform X, CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong I promised The stock exchange will pay the affected customers, increase the defenses of the electronic attack and transfer some customer support operations abroad.

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