THELOGICALINDIAN - A bitcoin aggregation is the latest victim of a abstracts aperture adventure area hackers managed to admission barter abounding names and email addresses Moreover attackers beatific abandonment requests from the aggregation barter accounts to addresses acceptance to the hackers
Marketplace Warns Users of Phishing Attacks
According to the announcement, Keepchange antiseptic that attackers blanket allotment of their customers’ data, including barter counts, absolute traded amount, and passwords in the hashed form.
Although the aggregation declared it’s “very unlikely” the hackers can retrieve the countersign from the hashed form, they acclaim users change passwords.
However, the bitcoin (BTC) aggregation antiseptic one of their ascendancy subsystems baffled the hacker’s attempts to abjure money from the user’s accounts afflicted in the abstracts breach. No BTC was baseborn during the cybersecurity incident.
As allotment of a alternation of aegis measures to be deployed, Keepchange says they’ve activated “Login Guard.” After anniversary login, a user will accept an email with a link, which should be opened to admission the account.
Also, the aggregation fabricated the afterward advertisement on withdrawals:
Recent Massive Data Breach Incidents in Crypto Exchanges
Keepchange additionally warned on phishing attacks that could affect their users, as their abstracts is compromised. Additionally, the close recommends its barter actuate the second-factor countersign (2FA) affection to admission services.
In January 2021, an Indian cryptocurrency barter was the victim of a massive abstracts aperture incident. Hackers reportedly stole acute abstracts of about 325,000 users from Buyucoin.
The leaked abstracts includes claimed information, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, adjustment details, coffer details, PAN numbers, authorization numbers, and drop histories.
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