{"id":128446,"date":"2021-10-02T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw"},"modified":"2021-10-02T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:22:58","slug":"hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw","title":{"rendered":"Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using MFA flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers after using a vulnerability to bypass the company\u2019s SMS multi-factor authentication security feature.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase is the world\u2019s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, with approximately 68 million users from over 100 countries.<\/p>\n<p>In a notification sent to affected customers this week, Coinbase explains that between March and May 20th, 2,021 a threat actor conducted a hacking campaign to breach Coinbase customer accounts and steal cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers after using a vulnerability to bypass the company\u2019s SMS multi-factor authentication security feature. Coinbase is the world\u2019s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, with approximately 68 million users from over 100 countries. In a notification sent to affected customers this week, Coinbase explains that between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128446","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=128446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}