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KeepChange Foils Bitcoin Theft but Loses User Data in Sunday Breach

Sebastian Sinclair reports: Bitcoin marketplace KeepChange says it has managed to limit the ramifications of a security breach on Sunday. According to a blog post on Monday, the exchange said several bitcoin withdrawal requests had been initiated from customer accounts to an address belonging to the attackers. However, one of the platform’s control subsystems halted the requests, resulting in no bitcoin being lost, the exchange said. The attackers did, though, manage to steal some customer data including email addresses, names, trade counts, total traded amount and hashed passwords. Read more on CoinDesk.DataBreaches.netRead More