Hack of Transak employee laptop exposes data of 93,000 users
Transak, a service that facilitates crypto asset purchases, suffered a data breach affecting 93,000 users. The hacking of an employee's laptop led to the breach, and the employee's use of the laptop for non-work purposes was identified as a factor.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Transak
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information of 93,000 users
- Cause / method
- Hacking of an employee's laptop
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- A link was raised between the data breach affecting 93,000 Transak users and an employee's non-work use of a laptop.
- It was reported that the hacking of an employee's laptop had exposed Transak customer information.
3 related reports
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