The huge data breach of Coinbase was reportedly linked to an outsourcing company that is active in India.
An employee based in India of the American Outsourcingbedrijf Taskus took photos of her work computer with her personal phone, but was trapped, according to a new Reuters reportThose five anonymous former Tasku’s cited employees.
The woman is said to have been paid by hackers to pass on Coinbase customer information and had a suspected accomplice.
Three of the anonymous former Tasku’s -employees and “a person who is familiar with the case” said Reuters that Coinbase was immediately informed. The “person who is familiar with the case” reportedly says that the security problem happened in January.
Coinbase claims that it has learned about the incident after receiving an e -mail last month who demanded a Bitcoin payment of $ 20 million in exchange for not releasing the illegally obtained information.
The exchange says that criminals have bribed a small group of overseas customer service agents to copy the data of less than 1% of the monthly transacting users of the company. A recent submit With the office of the Attorney General Van Maine, the infringement gives 69,461 people.
Coinbase notes that hacked information, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, masked SOFI numbers (only the last 4 digits), masked bank account numbers, some bank account identifiers, government images, account details and limited company data include.
The company refused to admit the demand from the hackers and estimates that it will pay $ 180 million up to $ 400 million in remediation costs and voluntary customer allowances.
The stock exchange reportedly told Reuters that it “had broken tires with the Taskus staff involved and other overseas agents, and tighter checks.”
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