Coinbase Agents Bribed, Data of ~1% Users Leaked; $20M Extortion Attempt Fails

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disclosed that unknown cyber actors broke into its systems and stole account data for a small subset of its customers.
« Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas, » the company said in a statement. « They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support tools for less than 1% of Coinbase monthly