{"id":128435,"date":"2021-10-02T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hackers-bypass-coinbase-2fa-to-steal-customer-funds"},"modified":"2021-10-02T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:23:32","slug":"hackers-bypass-coinbase-2fa-to-steal-customer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hackers-bypass-coinbase-2fa-to-steal-customer-funds","title":{"rendered":"Hackers bypass Coinbase 2FA to steal customer funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-bypass-coinbase-2fa-to-steal-customer-funds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 6,000 Coinbase users had funds stolen from their accounts after hackers used a vulnerability in Coinbase\u2019s SMS-based two-factor authentication system to breach accounts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The intrusions took place earlier this year, between March and May, the exchange said in a data breach <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/ecrime\/databreach\/reports\/sb24-545815\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">notification letter<\/a> it has filed with US state attorney general offices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe third party took advantage of a flaw in Coinbase\u2019s SMS Account Recovery process in order to receive an SMS two-factor authentication token and gain access to your account,\u201d Coinbase said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 6,000 Coinbase users had funds stolen from their accounts after hackers used a vulnerability in Coinbase\u2019s SMS-based two-factor authentication system to breach accounts. The intrusions took place earlier this year, between March and May, the exchange said in a data breach notification letter it has filed with US state attorney general offices. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}