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thepasswordis ◴[] No.43996769[source]
The problem is that it seems like the data that leaked is also the data that would be used to do account recovery.

And what that means is that

1) If you lose access to your account (through either your own fault, or coinbases fault) that the process of recovering it may not be so straightforward anymore.

2) Hackers can try to “recover” accounts now using this leaked info.

This is a huge problem. What coinbase needs are IRL offices where you can go and do things like account recovery, and where people trying to steal money can be caught and prosecuted (and makes a huge barrier for the overseas thieves who are usually doing this)

The only solution here is: hardware 2 factor like yubikeys.

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piva00 ◴[] No.43996798[source]
> What coinbase needs are IRL offices where you can go and do things like account recovery, and where people trying to steal money can be caught and prosecuted (and makes a huge barrier for the overseas thieves who are usually doing this)

That's just a bank.

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dowager_dan99 ◴[] No.43997006[source]
Beyond the regulatory-dodge and crypto marketing explain to me how Coinbase is NOT a bank
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1. chaosbolt ◴[] No.43998213[source]
lol they even do fractional reserve things like banks, except they're more shady and don't acknowledge it, now I'm either connecting dots that shouldn't be connected or some withdrawal locks that happened through some big arbitrage opportunities were very suspicious.