Coinbase says that the personal information of the stolen clients in data breach

Crypto Giant Coinbase confirmed that its systems have been hacked and stolen, including the government’s identity documents.

in Providing a law is legally With the American organizers, Coinbase said that one of the infiltrators this week told the company that they obtained information about customer accounts, and demanded money from the company in exchange for not publishing the stolen data.

Coinbase said that the infiltrators “obtained this information by pushing many contractors or employees working in the roles of support outside the United States to collect information from the interior Coinbase systems that they were able to reach in order to fulfill their job responsibilities.” The company said that support staff are no longer working.

The deposit said that Coinbase discovered the malicious activity “in the previous months”, and that “the customers whose information may be accessed to prevent the misuse of any information is at risk.”

Coinbase said it would not pay the infiltrator ransom. according to Social function By CEO Brian Armstrong, infiltrators demanded $ 20 million from the company.

The company said that the infiltrator stole the names of customers, postal addresses, e -mail, phone numbers and the four numbers numbers of social security numbers for users. The infiltrator also obtained convincing bank account numbers and some banking identifiers, in addition to the documents of the government, such as driver’s licenses and passports. The stolen data also includes account balance data and the date of transactions.

The company said that some companies’ data, such as internal documents, were also stolen during the breach.

in Blog postCoinbase said the breach affects less than 1 % of its customers. Coinbase has more than 100 million customers as of 2022, according to the company’s website.

Coinbase said it expects to bear the costs of about $ 180 million to $ 400 million in terms of monitoring accidents and customer payment.

A Coinbase spokesman did not immediately respond to the Techcrunch request for comment.

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