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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom

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410 points gpi | 1 comments | 15 May 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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sgarman ◴[15 May 25 18:37 UTC] No.43997944[source]▶
I tried to reach out to coinbase customer support to see if I was impacted. Once I wasted my time with the AI bot and got a human they were unaware of the breach. I was the first person to inform them about it.
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1. ycombinatrix ◴[15 May 25 18:49 UTC] No.43998073[source]▶
Maybe the actual first person got unlucky with a lazy customer support agent.