{"id":27683,"date":"2020-08-25T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27683"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:32:07","slug":"data-on-thousands-of-bitcoin-traders-posted-on-the-dark-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/data-on-thousands-of-bitcoin-traders-posted-on-the-dark-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Data on thousands of Bitcoin traders posted on the dark web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">A hacker stole the personal data of users of the CryptoTrader.Tax service, designed for tax accounting when trading digital currencies. This is reported by <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/hacker-cryptotrader-tax\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">CoinDesk<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The victims were at least 1,082 customers. The hacker gained access to the resource&#8217;s database through an employee&#8217;s support account. This allowed him to extract user data, including names, email addresses, partial information about profits from cryptocurrency trades, and information about profiles in payment systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">CryptoTrader.Tax confirmed the breach. The company&#8217;s co-founder, David Kemmerer, said that the attacker downloaded a file with a database of 13,000 lines, of which 1,082 are unique email addresses. According to him, user accounts were not compromised.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">After the data theft the hacker posted ads to sell the database on dark web forums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">CryptoTrader.Tax supports integration with 36 cryptocurrency exchanges. It enables users to calculate the tax due and prepare the corresponding documentation. The services are provided on a monthly paid subscription.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Last week it emerged that the former head of Uber&#8217;s security <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-uber-security-chief-paid-hackers-100000-in-btc-to-cover-up-data-theft\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">paid<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> hackers $100,000 in BTC to cover up the data breach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker stole the personal data of users of the CryptoTrader.Tax service, designed for tax accounting when trading digital currencies. CoinDesk reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,477,1256],"class_list":["post-27683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-darknet","tag-privacy-and-personal-data"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27685,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions\/27685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}