Coinbase in S&P 500: More crypto firms to come?

Coinbase in S&P 500: More crypto firms to come?

“This normalizes crypto exposure in conservative portfolios that might otherwise avoid digital assets,” said Bitpace’s Meryem Habibi. This past week, Coinbase joined the S&P 500, one of the world’s most elite stock indexes — a triumph for the crypto firm, which spent much of the 2020s battling US government agencies like the SEC and Commodity…

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Coinbase breach hit almost 70k users — Attorneys

Coinbase breach hit almost 70k users — Attorneys

A complaint filed with the Maine Attorney General’s office also alleges the attack was only discovered six much after it occurred. A recent filing with Maine’s attorney general sheds new light on Coinbase’s data breach, claiming that nearly 70,000 users were impacted and that the incident went unnoticed for nearly six months. According to the…

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Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety

Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety

Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. While cryptocurrencies have always created unique security risks, it seems there’s a rising threat of violent abduction due to the growing value of Bitcoin,…

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TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google is a ‘monopolist’; layoffs at Microsoft; and much more. Have a great weekend! Uh-oh: Coinbase says that customers’ personal information, including government-issued IDs, was stolen in a data breach. The hackers demanded…

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