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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The crypto lender's data leak comes almost a year to the date after a similar data leak hit BlockFi.
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The data, provided to a whistle-blower site, is not being made public over privacy concerns.
The fake wallets are an escalation in phishing attempts following a 2020 data breach that exposed 272,000 customer addresses.
The bitcoin marketplace has halted withdrawal requests temporarily.
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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