Court Documents: Coinbase Data Breach suspect's phone contains more than 10,000 customer details

According to Fortune, on September 17, according to Fortune magazine, a revised indictment filed on Tuesday by class action law firm Greenbaum Olbrantz, a former employee of outsourcing company TaskUs and the main suspect in the Coinbase data breach, Ashita Mishra, stored sensitive information from more than 10,000 customers on her phone. Starting in September 2024, she systematically stole confidential data such as social security numbers and bank accounts and sold it to hackers for $200 per screenshot. Mishra and her associates have built a “complex, converged network” in India, seizing screenshots of 200 customer accounts a day, affecting 69,000 users. Hackers use this information to trick users into buying cryptocurrencies, causing losses of up to $400 million. TaskUs recently accused Coinbase employees of being involved in the breach, but provided no specific evidence. A Coinbase spokesperson said the company has terminated its partnership with TaskUs, strengthened supervision, and has fully compensated users. Previously, the company also offered a $20 million bounty fund to track perpetrators. TaskUs said the company is constantly strengthening its security protocols and training and declined to comment on the indictment.