Coinbase and Bithumb users hit by data leaks

Coinbase and Bithumb users have seen their data leaked after hackers targeted the South Korean crypto exchange and Coinbase’s analytics vendor. The personal information of an unspecified number of Bithumb users was leaked after an “external party” reportedly breached its internal mobile groupware systems. Meanwhile, Coinbase’s third-party analytics vendor Amplitude suffered a security incident that led to the leaking of user contact data. Coinbase wants you to know it wasn’t its fault Coinbase has been on damage control since the leak, stressing to users that the exchange itself wasn’t breached. It said that only a “small subset” of users were impacted, and that there’s been “no evidence of unauthorized access to Coinbase systems, and customer funds were not impacted.” Read more: Coinbase leak prompts KYC criticism from crypto execs Three…

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