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0 pointsThorrez4y ago0 comments

This disclosure says that everyone who was hacked had their email inbox hacked. So you're saying that someone hacked Coinbase to find your email address, then once they found your address, hacked your email inbox some other way, then used that to hack Coinbase? That sounds very roundabout, although I guess not impossible. I guess it's possible Coinbase could have some info leak somewhere that would leak your email address.

Did you ever use any other cryptocurrency website? If so, one of those could have been hacked in order for the hackers to get a list of users to target.

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q1w24y ago

There is a big difference between hacking a Coinbase client contact database, and hacking THE Coinbase account database.

The thing that might have been hacked could have easily been a CRM or email marketing system - possibly even via some 3rd party supplier.

Obviously there was no hack of the Coinbase accounting system - for the reasons you mentioned.

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0 pointsThorrez4y ago0 comments

Did you ever use any other cryptocurrency website? If so, one of those could have been hacked in order for the hackers to get a list of users to target.

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q1w24y ago

There is a big difference between hacking a Coinbase client contact database, and hacking THE Coinbase account database.

The thing that might have been hacked could have easily been a CRM or email marketing system - possibly even via some 3rd party supplier.

Obviously there was no hack of the Coinbase accounting system - for the reasons you mentioned.

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