PANews reported on May 17 that according to Bloomberg, a person familiar with the matter said that in the Coinbase data breach, Sequoia Capital Managing Partner Roelof Botha's personal information was stolen, including phone number, address, and other details related to his Coinbase account. Coinbase disclosed on Thursday that the attacker bribed Indian customer service representatives to obtain customer data. The leaked information includes name, date of birth, address, nationality, ID number, partial bank data, and details such as account creation time and balance.

In addition, major cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance and Kraken were also hit by similar social engineering attacks, but their internal policies and technologies resisted these attacks without losing customer data, according to people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar with the matter said that Binance found that scammers offered bribes to its customer service staff and provided a Telegram account for contacting criminals. Binance uses artificial intelligence robots to identify potential bribes in different languages and block conversations.

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