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The data of users who bought a paid subscription to the analytic materials of the cryptocurrency publication The Block were allegedly sold for $ 5,000 at one of the hacker forums.
About the incident, which occurred a few weeks ago, writes Twitter account Shadow Intelligence. According to a screenshot posted on a forum post, a hacker under the pseudonym zeph0 was selling a database of paid The Block subscribers who paid $ 1,000 or more for accessing the publication’s exclusive content.
https://twitter.com/shad0wintel/stat...19650863177734
Allegedly, the database was obtained in January of this year as a result of a phishing attack on Jake McGraw, co-founder and CTO of The Block. The hacker suggested using this data to reach potential victims and steal bitcoins from them.
Shadow Intelligence also included a screenshot of a recent McGraw letter to clients. It says that the database could be at the disposal of attackers during the leak in September 2019.
The company reported about it in a separate entry , as well as in a letter to customers, emphasizing then that The Block does not have access to users' payment information and does not store any data other than names and email addresses.
Jake Macrow, however, expressed doubts that unauthorized access could have been obtained after the September incident. Nevertheless, he announced his intention to contact the police to determine possible methods of prosecuting a hacker.
The attacker himself, meanwhile, announced the successful sale of the base. According to Shadow Intelligence, he received $ 5,000 for it.
Shadow Intelligence writes that it also intends to conduct its own investigation to establish exactly how the data leak occurred.
Recall, it was previously reported that more than 200,000 users of popular cryptocurrency exchanges, financial applications and wallets put up for sale personal data. Behind the attack was supposedly a hacker who hacked the database of the official Ethereum forum in 2016, but those on the list of Ledger and Trezor deny the leak.
About the incident, which occurred a few weeks ago, writes Twitter account Shadow Intelligence. According to a screenshot posted on a forum post, a hacker under the pseudonym zeph0 was selling a database of paid The Block subscribers who paid $ 1,000 or more for accessing the publication’s exclusive content.
https://twitter.com/shad0wintel/stat...19650863177734
Allegedly, the database was obtained in January of this year as a result of a phishing attack on Jake McGraw, co-founder and CTO of The Block. The hacker suggested using this data to reach potential victims and steal bitcoins from them.
Shadow Intelligence also included a screenshot of a recent McGraw letter to clients. It says that the database could be at the disposal of attackers during the leak in September 2019.
The company reported about it in a separate entry , as well as in a letter to customers, emphasizing then that The Block does not have access to users' payment information and does not store any data other than names and email addresses.
Jake Macrow, however, expressed doubts that unauthorized access could have been obtained after the September incident. Nevertheless, he announced his intention to contact the police to determine possible methods of prosecuting a hacker.
The attacker himself, meanwhile, announced the successful sale of the base. According to Shadow Intelligence, he received $ 5,000 for it.
Shadow Intelligence writes that it also intends to conduct its own investigation to establish exactly how the data leak occurred.
Recall, it was previously reported that more than 200,000 users of popular cryptocurrency exchanges, financial applications and wallets put up for sale personal data. Behind the attack was supposedly a hacker who hacked the database of the official Ethereum forum in 2016, but those on the list of Ledger and Trezor deny the leak.