VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
Root cause
Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.
Forensic narrative
User information of BuyUCoin, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, was leaked, and personal data of more than 325,000 people appeared in the database of the hacker organization. According to Indian news media Inc42, a hacker group called ShinyHunters placed a database containing the names, phone numbers, email addresses, tax identification numbers and bank account information of more than 325,000 BuyUCoin users. Attack method (per SlowMist): Information Leakage. Reported loss: -.
Primary source
https://cointelegraph.com/news/breach-at-indian-exchange-buyucoin-allegedly-exposes-325k-users-personal-data ↗Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
- chain
- —
- protocol
- BuyUCoin
- bug_class
- unknown
- date_occurred
- 2021-01-25
- loss_usd
- —
- source_id
- sm:buyucoin::2021-01-25
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