The managing partner of Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha, was one of the high profile victims whose personal information was compromised in the recent Hack Coinbase.
According to a person familiar with the matter, the incident reveals that prominent executives were attacked in hack against the greatest exchange of cryptocurrencies in the United States.
According to Bloomberg’s report, stolen data included Botha’s telephone number, address and other confidential information associated with its coinbase profile, said the source, who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the situation.
Coinbase hackers bribed customer service service
The exchange of cryptocurrencies revealed Thursday that the attackers had successfully bribed client service representatives in India to obtain unauthorized access to customer data. According to reports, the committed information included names, birth dates, addresses, nationalities, government identification numbers, bank information and account information.
After the violation, the computer pirates tried to extort $ 20 million coinbase in exchange for their silence, a demand that the company rejected. According to Coinbase officials, suspicious activities of certain customer service representatives were detected in early January.
Botha is a member of the so -called “Paypal Mafia”, the notorious group of entrepreneurs and investors, including Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. He also has legs with Sequoia Capital since 2003, where he made early investments in companies such as YouTube and Instagram before becoming the firm’s senior administrator in 2022.
Some Coinbase users received security alerts last weekend warning that their information may have been accessed improvisedly, chordination to the person’s family with the situation.
The incident has highlighted the growing concerns about the safety of cryptocurrency executives as the industry gains visibility and adoption of the main current.
Despite the coinbase trick, Coin has increased 9% today to $ 266.4 at the time of publication. This means that investors are still optimistic about the company’s long -term potential despite data security challenges.
