At least one sequoia capital partner has been reported to have been affected by recent data violations to Coinbase users, suggesting that data from others in the venture capital firm may also be compromised.
According to a May 16 Bloomberg report, Roelof Botha’s personal information is available through his Coinbase account is stolen After a group of cybercriminals bribe the exchange support agents for accessing user data. Although the public has not revealed Botha on her net value, estimates suggest that she has a hundred -dollar dollars in property.
Coinbase announced the data violation of a post on the May 15 blog, saying that some of its users were targeting social engineering attacks after criminals were accessible to their personal account information. The company said the group attempted to gather $ 20 million In exchange for not disclosing the violation, Coinbase was rearming again.
Although the extent of the breach is still unknown, another Bloomberg report suggested that the same type of attacks that target users in Kraken and Binance. Cointelegraph reached out to representatives from the same exchange but did not receive any response at the time of publication.
This is a story development, and further information will be added as it is available.
