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I'm surprised they only demanded $20M. Surely that customer data is potentially worth, like, potentially orders-of-magnitude more. Correspondingly I'd assume e
by growlNark 1y ago
I'm surprised they only demanded $20M. Surely that customer data is potentially worth, like, potentially orders-of-magnitude more.
Correspondingly I'd assume either a) paying the ransom doesn't take it off the market or b) the info they stole isn't that interesting.
- drexlspivey 1y agoThey only stole 80000 emails (1% of their monthly active users) not the whole userlist
- mgillett54 1y ago> less than 1% of Coinbase monthly transacting users Unclear if users whose data was stolen, but did NOT transact in the last month are included in this statistic. Feels like a very intentional phrasing on their part https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/blog/protecting-our-customers...