Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on X that the crypto exchange had been targeted in a sophisticated extortion attempt involving insider collusion and customer data theft. Armstrong said hackers tried ...

Coinbase received an email communication from the unknown threat actor on May 11, according to the firm. Attackers were able to access customers ... Coinbase users had lost $300 million to social ...

Coinbase on Thursday announced hackers bribed some of its overseas employees for customer data and demanded a $20 million ...

The company was made aware of the breach via an email from the threat ... contractors and support agents. Coinbase detected workers with authorization to access its systems "accessing data without ...

Background of Coinbase’s May 2025 breach Coinbase, America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, received an unsolicited email ...

Criminals offered cash to Coinbase customer support agents to copy customer data like names, addresses, account data and government ID images, the company said.

The stolen data included names, birth dates, email ... customers that lost money from the breach. Second, Coinbase is rebuilding its customer service operations, limiting agent access to user ...

In addition to ramping up security controls for those affected, Coinbase said it would reimburse in full anyone who lost money ... people to gain unauthorised access to data, rather than ...