Polish Exchange Coinroom Suffers Domain-Level Breach, Takes Measures to Safeguard Users
Cryptovest
Published Aug 14, 2018 08:42AM ET
Updated Aug 14, 2018 10:00AM ET
Polish Exchange Coinroom Suffers Domain-Level Breach, Takes Measures to Safeguard Users
In an email sent out by Coinroom, we found out that the exchange has suffered a breach at the domain level, possibly allowing hackers to phish for coins from users trying to log into the platform.
The breach happened on August 10th and was announced yesterday. Allegedly no users have suffered any losses as a result of it. Coinroom took proactive measures to ensure that no account was compromised.
“Due to the breach of security procedures by the company administering the Coinroom.com domain, we would like to inform you that all user passwords have been reset for security purposes, so when trying to log in to the site, each user ...
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