2025-05-16
@brian_armstrong I was attempted to be socially engineered. Reported to @coinbase security last night. They threatened a physical attacker to be at an address for $25,000. Still haven't heard from Coinbase @brian_armstrong. Should be including authorities when physical harm is threatened.
Reuters
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Coul...
@brian_armstrong I was attempted to be socially engineered. Reported to @coinbase security last night. They threatened a physical attacker to be at an address for $25,000. Still haven't heard from Coinbase @brian_armstrong. Should be including authorities when physical harm is threatened.
Bloomberg
Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months
On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
2020-12-03
Visa didn't use Bitcoin, but instead USDC on Ethereum... who would've thought? https://www.forbes.com/...
Forbes