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Bits of Gold investigates data breach as Paz halts Bitcoin purchases
The breach potentially exposed up to 250,000 customers’ personal and banking details, though account passwords and identification document images were not accessed.
Israel’s largest regulated cryptocurrency broker, Bits of Gold, is investigating a data breach that potentially exposed personal information of up to 250,000 customers, according to CryptoSlate.
The firm said customer funds and digital assets remain secure and that it does not hold private keys, with account passwords and identification-document images not exposed. The potentially compromised data includes names, national identity numbers, phone numbers, email and IP addresses, bank-account details, and public crypto wallet addresses.
After Bits of Gold’s disclosure, Israeli retailer and energy company Paz temporarily halted Bitcoin purchases on its Yellow convenience store app by suspending the Bits of Gold integration, CTech reported. Paz said it was not concerned Yellow customer information leaked because the two applications lack a direct interface.
CryptoSlate reports Bits of Gold attributed the incident to an unauthorized party accessing a supporting data-analysis system several days earlier. The firm has blocked access to the affected system, disconnected it from its data sources, and retained a cybersecurity incident-response firm.
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