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

From the Coinbase website:

https://www.coinbase.com/en-de/blog/protecting-our-customers...

    What they got

    - Name, address, phone, and email

    - Masked Social Security (last 4 digits only)

    - Masked bank‑account numbers and some bank account identifiers 

    - Government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport)

    - Account data (balance snapshots and transaction history)

Wow. Why does customer support staff have access to images of the user's passports?

I also like 'last 4 digits only' as if that's not the most important parts and the part so many places use to validate your identity, the first 5 are just area and group so they're not exactly random.

Everyone's social security number is available. If you go download the leak referring to in this HN post [1], your SSN is certainly in it. Mine was, everyone in my family's was, almost all of my friends' were.

The world needs to stop pretending that SSNs are secret. They aren't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248104