Digitex Derivatives Exchange Falls victim to massive data breach

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Digitex has reported a major data leak. The former turned out to be a fraudsterExchange employee who has received e-mail and other information from more than 8,000 customers.

“We confirm that this is not a hack from outside, butinternal security breach. The attack was organized by a former employee who had a conflict of interest with the company,” — said Digitex head of communications Christina Comben.

They decided to hide the identity of the attacker. According to preliminary data, information about the users of the exchange was stolen around February 7.

“The hack was carried out by a cunning and savvy formeran employee who wishes harm to our exchange, — writes Digitex on his blog. “This person was able to obtain information about our users and took over the company’s Facebook account to publish the obtained data.”

The exchange administration could not immediately receiveaccess to your account and quickly react in this situation by deleting the posted message, or comment on the events. She blames the social network for the “slow and unresponsive” support desk.

Digitex CEO Adam Todd (AdamTodd) reports that he is not aware of the exact amount of data stolen. The attacker was in good standing with the company and was trusted, so he had access to confidential information.

“He took part in telephone conversations and heard a lot of confidential information. When such a person begins to act against your interests, it is very dangerous,” — Todd noted.

As Decrypt reports, exchange user datapublished in the Telegram channel. “I have on hand all the identification documents of every client who has used Digitex Treasury since its inception,” — wrote by an attacker calling himself “Digileaker.” According to him, we are talking about “documents, addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and other similar information.”

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