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In an Oct. 31 post on X, ZachXBT called out Strike, the global money app, for misleading users. Strike initially responded with a quote from TheBlock claiming that there was no evidence that it was involved in a data breach . Attempted phishing scams In the post, the anonymous blockchain sleuth shared that five or more people received phishing emails over the weekend to emails that were associated with Strike. These emails have proven to be dangerous as a method for scammers to steal passwords, account numbers and other personal information. Yesterday I shared 5+ people who received phishing emails over the weekend to email addresses associated with @Strike Strike then provided a quote to TheBlock claiming “there's no evidence that Strike was breach ed” Below are two examples with leaked data from the breach … pic.twitter.com/9Upw6ug8O3 — ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 31, 2023 Since Strike initially denied the claim of the breach , ZachXBT shared a follow-up post that sho...

Users' emails, account numbers, and partial phone numbers were allegedly leaked. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini appears to have suffered a data breach on or before Dec. 13. According to documents obtained by Cointelegraph, hackers gained access to 5,701,649 lines of information pertaining to customers' account numbers, email addresses, and partial phone numbers. In the case of the latter, hackers apparently did not gain access to the full phone numbers as certain numeric digits were obfuscated. The leaked database did not include sensitive personal information such as names, addresses, and other know-your-customer information. In addition, some email s were repeated in the document; thus, the number of customers affected is likely lower than the total rows of information. Gemini currently has 13 million active users. Security breach es in the Web 3.0 industry, even if mild in nature, can have consequences. One such incident took place in April this year and involved cryptoc...