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Coinbase Responds to Reports of Selling Customer ‘Geo Tracking’ Data to US Government
3.7.2022
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has insisted that it does not sell “proprietary customer data” after reports surfaced that its Tracer product is providing “historical geo tracking data” to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Coinbase...
Coinbase denies reports of selling customer data to the US government
1.7.2022
Coinbase clarified that the crypto exchange was not selling its users’ data and highlighted that it only provides information for investigations of financial crimes
Binance pushes back against report exchange supplied customer data to Russian government
22.4.2022
The exchange said it was "categorically false" that it shared user data with Russian regulators, and it had stopped working in the country following the invasion of Ukraine
Authorities Seize USD 5.2m in Crypto from ‘Tax Dodgers’
15.9.2021
tax crackdown on suspected cases of unreported or underreported taxable income by studying customer data they were handed by the nation’s four largest crypto exchanges
T-Mobile ‘Hackers Want BTC 6’ for Data, US Offers Dark Web USD 10M in Crypto
16.8.2021
The telecoms heavyweight T-Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach involving the personal and financial data of 100m users, with hackers ready to hawk out the data in exchange for bitcoin (BTC) – while the American State Department is planning to hand out crypto payments to a more benevolent...
Crypto Exchange Korbit Charged for ‘Excessive Customer Data Collection’
17.7.2021
The South Korean crypto exchange Korbit has been hit with a fine over “collecting excessive personal data” from at least one of its customers.
According to the news agency Yonhap, the exchange was fined just over USD 4,000 by a government watchdog for ordering a customer who had attempted...
Paxful denies reports of customer data leak
9.4.2021
A spokesperson from the crypto trading platform clarified that no leaks pertained to sensitive customer info
Indian Crypto Exchange Buyucoin Hacked, Sensitive Data of 325K Users Reportedly Leaked
24.1.2021
Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin has reportedly been hacked and sensitive data of about 325,000 users has reportedly been leaked onto the dark web. According to reports, the leaked data includes personal information, encrypted passwords, user wallet details, order details, bank details,...
Ledger Wallet Data Leak Dumped on Raidforums for Free, Company Regrets the Situation
21.12.2020
Just recently, the hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has been dealing with a lot of criticism for the e-commerce customer data leak that took place last June. The data contained the emails of a million Ledger wallet customers, and thousands of clients had additional information leaked like phone...
Ledger Wallet Customer Data Leak Invokes Threats, Phishing Scams, User Allegedly Loses Life Savings
13.12.2020
The cryptocurrency hardware wallet firm Ledger was hacked last June and over a million emails were exposed, according to reports from the company at the time. Months later, the hackers who obtained the Ledger data emailed clients, sent texts to customers, and created phishing links for users...
Coinbase Received 1,900 Requests for Client Info From Law Enforcement During First Half of 2020
17.10.2020
Coinbase has revealed that it received a total of 1,914 requests for customer data from global law enforcement agencies during the first six months of 2020. It is, however, not clear how many of the requests were fulfilled. In its first so-called“transparency report” published Friday...
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Hands Over Customer Data to UK Tax Authority
3.10.2020
Coinbase is handing over customer data to the British tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The measure affects customers with a U.K. address who received more than £5,000 ($6,450) worth of cryptocurrency during the 2019/20 tax year. On Oct. 2, Coinbase sent...
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20.8.2020
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CSV import as a process is broken. Messy customer data, edge cases, encoding formats, error messages, non-technical users: importing data into applications is a huge pain! Ingesting data has been long neglected as a software product experience, leading to customer...
Ledger Suffered Data Breach, Customer Data Compromised
29.7.2020
France-based major hardware wallet provider Ledger has confessed that it was been hit with a data breach on June 17 that appears to have allowed a “third party” access to at least 1 million of its users’ contact details.
The firm took to Twitter to state that its marketing and e-commerce database...
The Bank of Google Wants Your Spending Data
16.11.2019
The multinational technology giant Google has plans to get into the banking industry according to multiple reports that reveal the firm intends to work with Stanford Federal Credit Union and Citigroup. However, analysts assert that Google is not jumping into banking for revenue purposes and...
British Tax Authority Seeks Customer Data from Crypto Exchanges in Search of Tax Evaders
6.8.2019
The U.K. tax authority is pressuring crypto exchanges to reveal customers' names and transaction histories in a bid to claw back unpaid taxes, sources said
All Global Crypto Exchanges Must Now Share Customer Data, FATF Rules
21.6.2019
The Financial Action Task Force has officially ruled that crypto firms worldwide must share client data with each other