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Report Claims Cyberattack Leaked Crypto.com User Data

A recent Bloomberg report suggests that the cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com was attacked by the hacker group Scattered Spider in 2023, breaching users’ data, but the incident was not reported. The crypto platform’s CEO denied the accusations, calling the report "completely unfounded."

Last Friday, Bloomberg published a piece featuring the story of Noah Urban, a member of the hacker group Scattered Spider, who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison. Urban said that the group carried out a phishing campaign against Crypto.com and that he gained access to its internal system through an employee in 2023.

The report also mentioned that Scattered Spider exploited a United Parcel Service Inc. system to gather users’ data. According to Bloomberg, the incident was not reported. A spokesperson from Crypto.com told Bloomberg that the attack affected a “very small number of individuals” and that the hackers were not able to access any funds.

The article sparked debate among social media users, especially after blockchain sleuth ZachXBT shared the report on X as a reply to a promotional post by Crypto.com. “Your team covered up a breach that impacted the personal information of your users,” wrote ZachXBT on Sunday.

On Monday, Crypto.com’s CEO Kris Marszalek posted a response calling the accusations "completely unfounded” and raising concerns about misinformation.

“Any suggestion that we did not report or disclose a security incident is completely unfounded - as we reported in a NMLS Notice of Data Security incident filing and in additional reports with the relevant jurisdictional regulators, we detected a phishing campaign that targeted one of our employees in 2023,” wrote Marszalek. “The incident was contained within hours, no customer funds were accessed or ever at risk, and impacted an extremely limited number of our users' partial PII.”

After Marszalek’s message, the blockchain investigator ZachXBT argued that the information should be publicly available and easy to find, and that the leaked data was critical.

The case has fueled ongoing discussions and disagreements among users, putting the platform’s reputation and reliability at risk.



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