BTC
Markets Exchange Exposes Personal Data of 270k Users
Australian exchange BTC Markets
announced that it had accidentally exposed the full name and email addresses
of all of its customers on December 1st. A routine marketing email
accidentally included the names and addresses in the “to” section rather
than individually addressing each recipient.
The emails were sent in batches
of 1,000 so each user can see the names and addresses of 999 other users.
This has somewhat limited the risk of a bad actor using this data but
nonetheless it represents a significant data breach that is likely to lead to
an increase in phishing attacks.
BTC Markets is in the process
of reporting the incident to the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner, with Bowler noting the exchange will be “taking guidance from
the OAIC” on how to respond to the breach moving forward.
