The Coinbase Breach: When Your Digital Wealth Becomes Someone Else’s Leverage What would happen if, tomorrow morning, every exchange you trust with your cryptocurrency froze your account, and the hackers already had your name, address, bank login, and Social Security number? You think it’s paranoid? Then you haven’t been paying attention. In a recent court filing that should rattle every digital asset holder to their core, a single customer support rep—working for a third-party firm in India—exfiltrated personal data from over 10,000 Coinbase accounts. That includes masked Social Security numbers, masked bank account details, and even photos of government-issued IDs. How? She simply snapped photos of her company workstation and sold them off to the digital black market. Let that…
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