Coinbase employee may have accessed user data for phishing

Coinbase revealed that one of its employees may have illegally accessed the records of various users and broken internal company policy in the process, according to a screenshot shared by the co-founder of The Block, Mike Dudas, detailing an email sent to him by Coinbase.

The email warned about scammers claiming to be from the exchange and stated that Coinbase would never ask you to transfer your funds or manipulate them.

However, it also let Dudas know that one of its employees may have accessed his data. It claimed, “We detected activity suggesting a Coinbase employee may have reviewed a small number of Coinbase customer accounts records, including yours, in a way that did not align with our internal policies.”