Data Breaches
BTC Markets, one of Australia's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, has accidentally exposed users' data, raising the risk of phishing attacks.
The exchange said customer funds are safe.
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.
New York Man Charged With Trafficking Credit Card Info, Using Bitcoin to Launder Proceeds
May 28, 2020
Vitalii Antonenko, 28, has been indicted for allegedly stealing and selling reams of payment card data, the proceeds of which he laundered in bitcoin.
The personal data of about 266,000 people registered with the fund may have been exposed.