BTC Markets Exchange Reports Leaked Custom Email Addresses

The Australian cryptocurrency exchange of BTC Markets accidentally revealed complete names and email addresses of its customers during a mass news newsletter.

Yesterday the exchange sent emails to its customers. The mailing list indicated, what with 3 December BTC Markets will be Place pairs for USDT, and with 12 December will add a distribution of Spark from Flare Network SPARK. Notifications were sent in parties on 1000 letters. It means, that every user of exchanges owns information about others 999 clients.

It is quite possible, that the exchange could reveal the addresses of all traders, working on this platform. BTC Markets management reported the incident to the Australian Commissioner for Information (Oaic). CEO of BTC Markets Caroline Bowler (Caroline Bowler) said, that the exchange will take further actions according to the instructions of OAIC.

Bowler apologized to users for what happened. She reported, that Exchange experts are trying to reduce the possible consequences of the violation and work on the implementation of additional security functions, To prevent information in the future. Bowler recommended BTC Markets to change the password and use two -factor authentication to protect the account.

After the incident, attackers can carry out phishing attacks, Sliding letters on behalf of BTC Markets. Therefore, users of the site should show vigilance and fear attempts to access their accounts. Bowler added, that this violation did not affect the safety of the exchange, And no confidential data, In addition to full names and email addresses, were not disclosed.

Recall, that a year ago, the Bitmex trading platform also accidentally released user email addresses, And recently, the Liquid exchange announced a possible leakage of client data due to problems in the security system.