Data Breaches

Revolut's customer data was compromised by a phishing attack. (Shutterstock)
Digital Bank Revolut's Data Breach May Have Affected 50,000 Customers
Revolut notified Lithuanian authorities last week about an incident in which access to its database was obtained by phishing.
Revolut's customer data was compromised by a phishing attack. (Shutterstock)

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OpenSea Reports Email Data Breach
An employee at an outside contractor tasked with managing OpenSea email newsletters copied the list of customer emails and shared it with an outside party, OpenSea says.
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Robinhood Shares Fall After Data Security Breach Revealed
The Nov. 3 breach exposed the email addresses of 5 million customers.
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An employee connects a Ledger wallet to a computer inside the offices of La Maison du Bitcoin bank in Paris.
Scammers Are Sending Ledger Users Fake Hardware Wallets
The fake wallets are an escalation in phishing attempts following a 2020 data breach that exposed 272,000 customer addresses.
An employee connects a Ledger wallet to a computer inside the offices of La Maison du Bitcoin bank in Paris.

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Celsius Suffers Third-Party Data Breach, Customers Report Phishing Texts, Emails
The crypto lender's data leak comes almost a year to the date after a similar data leak hit BlockFi.
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U.S. President Donald Trump
Gab, Refuge for the Deplatformed, Hacked for 'Pretty Much Everything' Including Trump Data
The data, provided to a whistle-blower site, is not being made public over privacy concerns.
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KeepChange Foils Bitcoin Theft but Loses User Data in Sunday Breach
The bitcoin marketplace has halted withdrawal requests temporarily.
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Why Ledger Kept All That Customer Data in the First Place
Sunday’s dump of customer emails and addresses serves as a sobering reminder that even a maker of hardware crypto wallets can become a data honeypot.
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Australian Crypto Exchange Exposes Personal Data of 270K Users
BTC Markets, one of Australia's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has accidentally exposed users' data, raising the risk of phishing attacks.
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