Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the US, said criminals had improperly obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million (€17.6 million) payment not to publicly release the information.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a social media post Thursday that criminals had bribed some of the company’s customer service agents who live outside the US to hand over personal data on customers – including names, dates of birth, and partial national identification numbers.
