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Cryptocurrency Investment Fund Suffers Hack Exposing Data Of 266,000 Users

Ramsey Baker

Summary: Trident Crypto Fund, the Malta-based crypto investment index fund, has suffered a major data leak, according to a report from Russian newspaper Izvestia on Thursday. Ashot Oganesyan, chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm DeviceLock, stated that around 266,000 people registered with the fund had their personal data posted on numerous file-sharing websites following the breach. ...

Trident Crypto Fund, the Malta-based crypto investment index fund, has suffered a major data leak, according to a report from Russian newspaper Izvestia on Thursday.

Ashot Oganesyan, chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm DeviceLock, stated that around 266,000 people registered with the fund had their personal data posted on numerous file-sharing websites following the breach.

The leaks included members email addresses, cellphone numbers, encrypted passwords and IP addresses, was posted online around Feb. 20, and an unknown hacker later decrypted and published a dataset of 120,000 passwords on March 3.

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