CZ: 4 Data Breach Incidents Exposed, Urging Users to Guard Against Phishing Attacks and SIM Swapping

TechFlow news, October 28: CZ stated in a post that 4 data breach incidents were reported today, involving Coinbase third-party vendor Amplitude, South Korea-based crypto exchange Bithumb, and South Korea-based securities firms Mirae Asset and Daishin Securities. Among them, the Amplitude incident affected contact information for some Coinbase users; customer funds were not affected.

CZ warned that leaked names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, and transaction records could be used for phishing attacks, SIM swapping, and social engineering attacks. He advised users to enable hardware security keys or Passkeys, avoid SMS-based two-factor authentication, and be wary of scam messages impersonating customer service.

Source: TechFlow