Coinbase aware of recently disclosed data leak since January: Reuters

Reuters reports that Coinbase was made aware in January that an employee of an outsourcing company could have leaked its customer data, months before its recent public disclosure.

Coinbase was reportedly informed in January that customer data may have been leaked by an employee of an outsourcing firm, months before the company publicly disclosed the incident last month.

Part of the breach, which Coinbase publicly disclosed in a May 14 regulatory filing, happened when an India-based employee of the outsourcing firm TaskUs was caught taking pictures of her work computer with her personal phone, Reuters reported on June 3 citing five former TaskUs employees.

The former employees said they were told that the employee and a suspected accomplice allegedly gave Coinbase customer information to hackers for money. Coinbase was reportedly immediately notified of the incident.

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