This Friday Coinbase announced a possible vulnerability in a small batch of passwords of its customers were stored in an internal server registry, such information was not accessed by third parties. It is estimated that around 3,500 customers were affected, which resulted in personal information, including passwords that were stored in the internal registration system.
In the Coinbase publication, he explains: "Under a very specific and rare error condition, the registration form on our registration page would not load correctly, which meant that any attempt to create a new Coinbase account under those conditions would fail. ". "Unfortunately, it also meant that the person's name, email address and proposed password (and residence status, if in the US) would be sent to our internal records."
"An exhaustive review of access to these registration systems did not reveal any unauthorized access to this data." "While we are sure that we have solved the root cause and that the registered information was not accessed, it was not used incorrectly or was improperly compromised, we are requiring those clients to change their passwords as a precautionary measure ", is explained in the publication.