"Now, a new court filing provides a closer look at one suspect and how she helped carry out the breach, which is the worst in Coinbase history. According to an amended complaint filed Tuesday by the class-action law firm Greenbaum Olbrantz, the hack is connected to Ashita Mishra, an employee of TaskUs, a publicly traded firm based in Texas that outsources customer service support for large tech companies to cheap labor markets. Mishra worked at a TaskUs service center in Indore, India."
"When TaskUs eventually got wise to the breach, Mishra's phone contained data for more than 10,000 Coinbase customers. She and others who were part of the conspiracy were paid $200 a picture, according to the complaint. Sometimes, Mishra took as many as 200 photos of Coinbase customer accounts a day. More than 69,000 customers were impacted, Coinbase said in regulatory filings."
In May, Coinbase disclosed that hackers stole personal data from thousands of customers, enabling criminals to trick victims into surrendering cryptocurrency. The breach involved rogue employees at TaskUs, an outsourcing firm with a service center in Indore, India. TaskUs employee Ashita Mishra is identified as a central participant who began stealing Social Security numbers and bank account details in September 2024 and sold the information to criminals. Mishra and accomplices recruited other employees into a hub-and-spoke conspiracy that funneled customer records to criminals. Mishra's phone held data for more than 10,000 customers; Coinbase reported over 69,000 customers impacted and expects costs up to $400 million.
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