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🚨 Coinbase hit by insider breach - and a $20M ransom demand!

Hackers bribed support agents to leak personal info of <1% of users. No crypto was stolen, but the data is sensitive and could be used for phishing attacks. Coinbase refused to pay and is now offering a bounty to catch the attackers.

We cover everything here: auriccrypto.com/news/coinbase-

Picture showing hacked computer, symbolizing Coinbase breach and ransom
Auric Crypto News · Coinbase Refuses Ransom After Insider Breach Hits <1% of UsersCoinbase has disclosed a targeted extortion attempt in which a small number of customer service agents were bribed to leak sensitive user data. Although the

Somebody is going to #hack these #AI companies so bad.

They absolutely are not even thinking about
#InformationSecurity or #CyberSecurity. At. All. No startup does. Hell, even cyber security startups rarely think about their own cyber security. And when it happens it's going to be a shit-show like none we've ever seen or imagined.

Imagine your entire Company's IP is now tied up in processes that not only do you not fully control but that you don't fully understand either.

And something similar to the Great Irish Potato Famine comes along and wipes everything out.

Heh.

Yeah. Good luck.

It's not a matter of
if something like that will happen, but when, and at the rate some of these Companies are going, when might get here sooner rather than later.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/software-engineer-lost-150k-job-090000839.html

Yahoo News · Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meetBy Preston Fore