Crypto Giant Coinbase has confirmed that its systems have been violated and customer data, including identity documents issued by the government, have been stolen.
In a legally required submission With American supervisors, Coinbase said that a hacker told the company this week that they had obtained information about customer accounts and demanded money from the company in exchange for not publishing the stolen data.
Coinbase said that the hacker “has obtained this information by paying several contractors or employees who work in support roles outside the United States to collect information from internal Coinbase systems to which they had access to perform their task responsibilities.” The support staff is no longer employed, the company said.
The submission said that the coinbase systems detected the malignant activity “in the previous months” and that it “warned customers whose information was possible to prevent abuse of compromised information.”
Coinbase said it will not pay the ransom of the hacker. According to A social post The Hackers demanded $ 20 million from the company by CEO Brian Armstrong.
The company said that the Hacker customer names, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and the last four figures of the social security numbers of users Stal. The hacker also took masked bank account numbers and some bank identification data, as well as the government issued by customers, such as driving licenses and passports. The stolen data also includes account -balance data and transaction history.
The company said that some company data, such as internal documentation, were also stolen during the infringement.
In A blog postCoinbase said that the infringement affects less than 1% of its customers. Coinbase has more than 100 million customers from 2022, according to the website of the company.
Coinbase said that it is expected to incur the costs from approximately $ 180 million to $ 400 million with regard to the remediation of incident and customer allowances.
A spokesperson for Coinbase did not immediately respond to Techcrunch’s request for comment.
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