In May, Coinbase revealed that hackers had made off with the personal data of thousands of clients, which criminals used to trick customers into handing over their crypto. While the hack, which Coinbase says will cost it up to $400 million, stems from rogue employees at an outsourcing firm in India, the U.S.’s largest crypto exchange has offered few details about who specifically was responsible. Now, a new court filing provides a closer look at one suspect and how she helped carry out the breach, which is the worst in Coinbase history.
According to an amended complaint filed Tuesday by the class-action law firm Greenbaum Olbrantz, the hack is connected to Ashita Mishra, an employee of TaskUs, a publicly traded firm based in Texas that outsources customer service support for large tech companies to cheap labor markets. Mishra worked at a TaskUs service center in Indore, India.
