Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-07-21 00:00:00
Affected organization: Coinbase
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Coinbase reveals that it stopped scammers from stealing an extra $280,000 of cryptocurrency during the Twitter hack which affected dozens of high profile accounts as well Coinbase's own account.