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Monday, February 18, 2019

Coinmama Hacked, 450k Lost Emails & Passwords!


Israel-based Cryptocurrency Brokerage firm, Coinmama, was recently hacked! Leaving users puzzled, as Coinmama lost 450,000 Emails and passwords. It was officially disclosed on February 15th, 2019 that the site had been breached. Coinmama is one of the largest brokerage firms in the cryptocurrency industry.



Coinmama's official statement concludes that 24 websites have been breached by the hackers. The hackers managed to get away with a 450,000 email addresses and passwords, including 747 million records of information (transactions, notifications, services, etc.). No Bitcoin or Ethereum were stolen from Coinmama.

Current users are all now required to change their password as Coinmama builds up security measures to prevent further attacks from being successful. The Coinmama hack is the second highprofile cryptocurrency related hack in 2019, the first hack affected thousands of wallets!