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CryptoIntelligence 2024-06-08 13:59:03

CoinGecko Suffers Data Breach at Third-Party Email Vendor, Over 1.9 Million Users’ Contact Details Exposed

CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency data aggregator, has reported a security breach at its third-party email service provider, GetResponse. This incident occurred shortly after news of a fresh round of cryptocurrency airdrop scams. The breach, confirmed on June 5, allowed unauthorized access to over 1.9 million user contacts from CoinGecko’s database due to a compromised employee account at GetResponse. CoinGecko relayed the specifics of this breach in a statement: “An attacker had compromised a GetResponse employee’s account, leading to a breach. “We received confirmation from the GetResponse team on 6 June 2024, at 11:58 AM UTC, that a data breach had occurred.”

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