Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer and corporate data affected 69,461 individuals.
In data breach notifications filed with the Office of Maine’s Attorney General, Coinbase said, “a small number of individuals, performing services for Coinbase at our overseas retail support locations, improperly accessed customer information.”
While the exposed data did not include the impacted people’s passwords, seed phrases, private keys, or other information that could be used to access their funds or accounts, it did include a combination of personal identifiers such as name, date of birth, last four digits of social security numbers, masked bank account numbers and some bank account identifiers, addresses, phone number, and email address.
Depending on the affected customer, the stolen information can also contain images of government identification information (e.g., driver’s license number, passport number, national identity card number)
