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Cryptocurrency intersection firm Transak has suffered a data breach, with a scammer gaining access to the personal data of over 92,000 users. Through tricking an employee, the scammer gained access to names, identification data, and selfies. The compromised data represents 1.14% of total Transak users. No financial or highly sensitive data was affected. The company has informed the affected users, as well as data protection authorities and regulators. Fidelity Investments also recently experienced a data breach, the fourth in a year, exposing the data of over 77,000 customers.
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Transak, a company that helps folks get into cryptocurrency by exchanging regular money for digital assets, recently suffered a data breach. The breach happened after a scammer tricked an employee, which let them get their hands on the personal information of just over 92,000 users. This info included names, birthdays, passport and driver’s license numbers, and even selfies.
The scammer found a way to get into the system used by a company that Transak works with to check and confirm the identity of their users. The information of these users, which makes up about 1.14% of total Transak users, was exposed and taken by the scammer.
Transak was quick to assure that no financial or seriously personal information was nabbed by the scammer. Things like email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, credit card details, and social security numbers stayed safe.
If you’re a Transak user and haven’t gotten an email from them about this, you’re in the clear. The company’s said they’ve reached out to the unfortunate 1.14% directly. Transak’s also kept data protection authorities in the UK, regulators in the European Union, and officials in the US informed about the breach.
In other news, the finance company Fidelity Investments also had a data breach recently that exposed personal information of over 77,000 customers. This has been the fourth time they’ve had similar issues in the past year, with the previous instances on March 4, March 18 and July 19.
Source: Cointelegraph