Public service announcement for us Crypto fans. I had a partner that worked with me for about 7-8 years and quit at the end of last year. Got a text from him a couple of days ago and listen to this shit about how his crypto got stolen from COINBASE. Lives in Chicago.
Apparently he used his comcast email to register on the coinbase website. The hackers called Comcast and pretended that they wanted to update their phone number. Once they changed the phone number to his xfinity account they were allowed to change his email address. They then had Verizon port over the number to a new phone. At that point they had control of his email address, and phone so they could use that to log into his coinbase account.
To add to the story, the hackers, while they were on the phone with xfinity etc, called the cops and reported a "man with a gun and his girlfriend locked in the bathroom" at my partners address. The cops called him out of his house and he had to walk backwards out of his house with his hands over his heads. This bought the hackers time to do their thing.
@America 1st this is a legit criticism of crypto, but people steal cash dollars all the time too. And they use gift cards all the time too, but we haven't outlawed those. We can discuss that in another thread though.
Moral - keep your shit in cold storage
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