The hackers stole the personal data of 1,000 traders from an encrypted tax reporting service
Hackers have stolen data from more than 1,000 users on Cryptotrade.Tax, an online service used to calculate and file taxes on cryptocurrency transactions.
The source was encountered by a hacker on a dark online forum who allegedly broke into the accounts of Cryptotrade.Tax marketing and customer services employees on the support center platform.With this access, the hacker could see the customer's name, email address, payment processor profile and sometimes messages containing cryptocurrency receipts.
The hackers then sipped samples of the sensitive information and posted them on forums to attract potential data buyers, and sent other images to sources who Shared the evidence with CoinDesk.
Cryptotrade.tax co-founder and CEO David Kemmerer confirmed to CoinDesk that hackers gained unauthorized access to the accounts of marketing and customer service employees on April 7.The hackers were able to see the details of the support center in the file and downloaded a file containing 13,000 lines of information, including 1,082 unique email addresses, Kemmerer said.
Kemmerer said the cryptotrade.Tax's security team investigated the violations and found that cryptotrade.tax password records and the Cryptotrade.Tax website were not compromised.The team then alerts parties affected by violations and takes steps to improve internal and third-party applications' security measures and monitoring systems, Kemmerer said.
Coin Ledger Inc in Kansas City is a CryptoTrader.Operation, allowing users to import transactions from 36 cryptocurrency exchanges and automatically generate cryptocurrency revenue and losses on tax reports generated by TurboTax, the popular tax preparation software, which can be exported to them.
To pay for subscriptions, power users also enter billing information into the billing processor Stripe.The stripes connect to the cryptotrade.Tax's support center platform and display customers' email addresses and general location, but it does not disclose physical addresses or credit, debit, and banking information, according to the stripes website.
According to materials reviewed by CoinDesk and Kemmerer, the hackers also accessed marketing communications, referral Numbers, commission revenue and revenue from members promoting cryptotrade.tax services on websites and social media.
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