US CRIPTTO Exchange hit the Cyber-Attack with costs and $ 400 million American crime

The largest exchange of cryptocurrenci in the American forecast is predicted that the cyber-attack violated data on the “small subgroup” of his customers cost between $ 180 million and $ 400 million. The coin said the price price would not include the ransom of $ 20 million, which were looking for hackers, which the company refused to pay.

Coinbase, which sees the highest volume of the U.S. cryptocurrency store, said that they have stolen some data, including names, addresses and e-mail, they did not receive access to data or login passwords. However, they will compensate for customers who are deceived in sending funds to attackers.

Hackers paid multiple contractors and employees working in the support of the role outside the United States to collect information from internal systems. The coins immediately fired employees in inclusion, it was said.

It also refuses to pay pronomina demand of 20 million dollars and cooperates with law enforcement agencies. Instead, he founded $ 20 million award for information on attackers.

“Instead of financing criminal activities, we investigated the incident, reinforced our control and would compensate for customers who hit this incident,” said the company in the blog.

The company announced that 11. May received an email from an unknown actor threat, claiming to have information about certain user accounts as well as internal documents. Discover comes the days before Coinbasase sets to join the Benchmark S & P 500 index, marking a significant moment for the crypto industry.

Security remains a challenge for the crypto industry. In February, Bibit, the second largest exchange of cryptocurrency in the world, was disclosed that attackers stole digital tokens worth about $ 1.5 billion, which called them the greatest crypte of all time.

The funds stolen by hacking the CRIPTO platform was $ 2.2 billion in 2024. years, according to the Film Chip Blocchain Chain Report, the fourth-year-old year in which such haks are topped over 1 min.