{"id":26922,"date":"2025-05-15T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/coinbase-says-criminals-stole-customer-data-offers-20m-bug-bounty\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:02:54","slug":"coinbase-says-criminals-stole-customer-data-offers-20m-bug-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=26922","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Says Criminals Stole Customer Data, Offers $20M Bug Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Coinbase (COIN) has confirmed that cyber criminals &#8220;bribed and recruited&#8221; a group of rogue support agents that facilitated the theft of user data.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto exchange added in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/en-gb\/blog\/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists\">blog post<\/a> that it will &#8220;reimburse customers who were tricked into sending funds to the attacker.&#8221; It has also offered a $20 million bug bounty for anyone that provides information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmation of cyber criminal activity comes three months after on-chain sleuth ZachXBT <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1886412041004458186\">claimed<\/a> that Coinbase users had lost $300 million to social engineering scams.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase also said that the criminals secured government ID images, account balances and corporate data. Two-factor authentication codes and private keys were not breached, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange fired staff involved in the breach on the spot and referred to U.S. and international law enforcement. It will also press criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase did not immediately respond to CoinDesk&#8217;s request for comment in regards to ZachXBT&#8217;s $300 million claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase (COIN) has confirmed that cyber criminals &#8220;bribed and recruited&#8221; a group of rogue support agents that facilitated the theft of user data. The crypto exchange added in a blog post that it will &#8220;reimburse customers who were tricked into sending funds to the attacker.&#8221; It has also offered a $20 million bug bounty for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-26922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}