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

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422 points gpi | 1 comments | 15 May 25 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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modeless ◴[15 May 25 19:12 UTC] No.43998293[source]▶
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening feature takes good care of the rest. Wish I could forward them to Kitboga[1].

I guess they didn't have as much luck as they wanted scamming Coinbase's customers, and once they had their fun they decided to try extorting Coinbase themselves.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNziOoXDBeg

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VectorLock ◴[15 May 25 19:37 UTC] No.43998497[source]▶
I just switched to iPhone from a pixel device and I’m shook by all the spam calls. How do iPhone users deal with this?
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conductr ◴[15 May 25 19:48 UTC] No.43998620[source]▶
It’s my biggest gripe. They can pretty accurately flag a number as Spam or Telemarketing but in the “Silence Unknown Callers” setting I can only silence every single unknown caller. I can’t silence every single number that’s not in my contacts. When the plumber calls to confirm he’s in route, my phone needs to ring. Stuff like that.
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RulerOf ◴[18 May 25 20:44 UTC] No.44024197[source]▶
This could have been solved with regulation. Mandate delivery of all available phone call metadata to every digital telephone. Mandate that mobile phone operating systems must expose that data to apps approved by the user.

We'd have hundreds of enshittification-ready VC-backed apps to fix spam calls overnight.

Instead, we got STIR/SHAKEN mandates, which is just a soft way of having the legacy telcos "promise to fix it for you."

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1. conductr ◴[19 May 25 13:36 UTC] No.44029742[source]▶
I believe there are Phone app alternatives, I just don’t trust them

I feel like Apples M.O. on software is to build the lowest passable set of features in their apps, never enhance them, allow third parties to delve into the high functionality/spec software. Mail is horrible, Camera good enough for most people, for me personally even Safari is in this camp; I’d swap any of those for a third party solution without much thought. Phone app becomes a bit to much of a security risk to use a third party, such that I’d never even consider leaving the default Phone app.