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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: 0.206s | source
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silisili ◴[16 May 25 08:17 UTC] No.44002952[source]▶
> the Company has preliminarily estimated expenses to be within the range of approximately $180 million to $400 million relating to remediation costs

Hopefully companies take this as a lesson about bottom dollar outsourcing your CS.

For those amounts, they could afford to have hired regionally local support agents, and paid them well over industry standard...

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1. mplewis9z ◴[16 May 25 09:52 UTC] No.44003499[source]▶
The costs will likely be covered by insurance, which is hilariously cheap and also covers events you could never feasibly prepare for.