{"id":32694,"date":"2020-12-02T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32694"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:58:59","slug":"australian-btc-markets-accidentally-exposed-users-personal-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/australian-btc-markets-accidentally-exposed-users-personal-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian BTC Markets accidentally exposed users&#8217; personal data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leading cryptocurrency exchange in Australia, BTC Markets, inadvertently disclosed the names and email addresses of its users in a marketing email.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Earlier today, an announcement from BTC Markets exposed client names and email addresses. This is a deeply regrettable situation and we apologise wholeheartedly for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BTC Markets (@BTCMarkets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTCMarkets\/status\/1333667467823116288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BTC Markets uses an external service for mailings. The promotional email containing personal data was sent to 1,000 user addresses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What was our response?<br \/>\nAccount-holders had their name and email address exposed. The process took place very quickly, therefore it was not possible to stop the batch send once the error was realised.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BTC Markets (@BTCMarkets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTCMarkets\/status\/1333667475540459521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n\u201cThe process happened very quickly, so once the error was detected it was not possible to stop the batch sending,\u201d BTC Markets noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives said that passwords for accounts were not compromised. Users were advised to enable two-factor authentication and to secure their email access.<\/p>\n<p>The trading platform promised to report the incident to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and to conduct an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>CEO BTC Markets Caroline Bowler urged users to stay vigilant, warning of possible phishing attacks. A day before the incident, she announced her appointment to the board of the national blockchain association.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in November an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/liquid-a-bitcoin-exchange-reported-a-data-breach\">obtained<\/a> access to the management of the Liquid exchange&#8217;s account and domain.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ledger, the maker of hardware wallets, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ledger-reports-data-breach-affecting-around-one-million-users\">reported<\/a> a breach of personal information of one million users.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading cryptocurrency exchange in Australia, BTC Markets, inadvertently disclosed the names and email addresses of its users in a marketing email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32695,"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":[1166,1188],"class_list":["post-32694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-data-breach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32694","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=32694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32696,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32694\/revisions\/32696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}