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Today in Crypto Coinbase, she reportedly refused to pay $ 20 million ransom after the initiates escaped user data in the phishing system – violations could cost up to $ 400 million. Since then, the company has fired a group of contractual agents support for customer support, which allegedly participated in the attacks. Meanwhile, the Huione warranty – suspected of operating as the largest dark horses market in the world – closed after cleaning the telegram disrupted its network.
Coinbase Fire Compromized Agents in India – Report
Coinbase reportedly burned a group of Agent Support Agent Agents After their alleged involvement in social engineering attacks on users. Contracting agents forces in India.
According to an interview of May 15, Fortune, the main security officer of Coinbase, Philip Martin, said The company has identified customer support suppliers who have allowed fraudsters to access user data, suggesting that they could be Indian nationals. CSO comments came after some crypt users Walking out of attempts at phishing attacks Using their Coinbase data, which would be estimated, could cost them between 180 million and $ 400 million in axle and payment.
Qiao Wang, the main contributor to the Alliance Dao, said In the paper on May 15, that he could be the victim of one of these attacks. He said Scammer announced that his Coinbase account had been endangered, asked him to verify his personal data to which the criminals probably had access through compromised agents, and asked to withdraw all his resources to “Coinbase’s self -deustodial wallet”.
“I called them at the end of the call. […]”Wang said to X.” They told me he earned $ 7 million that day. “
Coinbase is facing $ 400 million after the attack of phishing
Coinbase, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world was hit an attempt to blackmail $ 20 million after cyber crimes The company said that support agents in overseas support for user data leakage.
According to On May 15, Coinbase said that a group of external actors brought back and coordinated with several customer support suppliers to access internal systems and steal data on limited user account.
“These initiates abused access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small customer subgroup,” Coinbase said, adding that no passwords, private keys, funds or the initial Coinbase accounts were affected.
The attack was influenced by less than 1% of monthly data on Coinbase users, the company said.
After the theft of the data, the attackers tried to blackmail bitcoins worth $ 20 million (BTC) from Coinbase in exchange for not publishing violations. Coinbase refused the demand.
Coinbase said they would pay users who have been deceived to send the cryptocurrency to phishing fraudsters, with expected axles and expenses to pay between $ 180 and $ 400 million.
Crypto published Estimated by the US Securities and Stock Exchange Committee on May 15, with the expenses concerning “voluntary customer compensation” and other correctional efforts.
Telegram closes “the largest market Darknet ever existed”
The main Chinese market with Darknet suspects to facilitate crypto fraud and computer crime says it ends operations after focusing on the bank wave by telegram service that it worked on.
The largest illegal market on the Internet, Haowang warranty, before Huione warrantysaw the telegram to ban the thousands of his related accounts 13. May.
“Since all our NFTs, channels and groups were blocked by telegram 13. read Notifications on the Marketplace website.
Message from Wired said This included prohibiting thousands of accounts and user names that served as an infrastructure for the crypto market of crime and its sellers.
Telegram spokesman Remi Vaughn told Outlet: “The communities that reported us before Wired or included in the elliptical reports were all canceled,” before he added that “criminal activities like fraud like fraud or money laundering are forbidden and always removed.”
