Crypto platform Coinbase affected by hacker attack

The trading platform for cryptocurrencies Coinbase claims to be victims of a cyber attack. Hackers have captured user data and contacted the company by 20 million Dollar to demand so that the incident would not be public.

Coinbase rejected the payment, it said on Thursday. According to a message to the US stock exchange supervision, the company goes between 80 and 400 million due to the incident Dollar out of.

Coinbase is the most important trading center for cryptocurrencies in the USA. According to the information, the cyber criminal customer service staff brave them abroad. “These insiders abused their access to the customer care systems to steal the account details of a small sub -group of customers.”

Exact of the damage is still unclear

According to the information they had Attacker no access To passwords, however, they have made a number of users transfer money to them.

Theft of data was therefore less than one percent of coin base users. Nevertheless, the crypto platform assumes considerable losses.

The aforementioned span can “significantly increase or reduce or reduce or reduce the amount of potential losses, claims for damages and possible claims. The Coinbaseshare steeply downhill on Thursday evening.