Crypto ETF issuer Fidelity reports a leak of 77 000 customers’ data
This is the company’s fourth such incident since the beginning of the year
11.10.2024 - 15:15
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What’s new? Fidelity Investments, a $5 trillion investment company that manages assets and acts as an issuer of bitcoin and Ethereum-based spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has reported a data breach involving 77 099 clients. The attacker accessed the personal data between August 17 and August 19 using two newly created customer accounts. The company passed information about the incident to the victims themselves, as well as to the Attorney General of Maine.
What else is known? The unauthorized access was terminated on August 19 when Fidelity discovered the breach. The company brought in outside security experts to address the issue.
Fidelity emphasized that the attacker did not access the accounts themselves, only information about a small portion of the company’s customer base, which totals 51,5 million people.
Those affected now need to register with the credit reporting company TransUnion Interactive. This is Fidelity’s fourth data breach in the past 12 months, with the previous ones occurring on March 4, March 18, and July 19.
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In September, an announcement appeared on the dark web about the sale of personal data of 13 million users of the crypto exchange Binance, which allegedly leaked into the network in August of this year. The exchange itself denied the authenticity of the leak. Industry experts also admitted that the announcement was fraudulent and that the seller did not have real data.
In June, CoinGecko, the largest aggregator of data on the crypto market, faced a leak of user data due to the fault of a third-party mail service provider. The incident affected almost 2 million users.
In May, there was information about the leak of logins and passwords of 22 500 users of Bitfinex crypto exchange. The company denied this information, noting that it does not store such sensitive data in plain text.
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