{"id":31973,"date":"2020-11-18T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31973"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:23:10","slug":"liquid-a-bitcoin-exchange-reported-a-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/liquid-a-bitcoin-exchange-reported-a-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid, a Bitcoin exchange, reported a data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Liquid disclosed a data breach affecting customer data, which occurred on 13 November.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">Update on security incident from 13 November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Having contained the attack, reasserted control of the domain, and performed a comprehensive review of our infrastructure, we can confirm client funds are accounted for and remain safe and secure. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/ebbLd6eprB\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/ebbLd6eprB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liquid Global Official (@Liquid_Global) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liquid_Global\/status\/1329007090564739073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Liquid&#8217;s CEO Mike Kayamori, the hosting provider handed control of the exchange&#8217;s account and domain to the attacker.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the attacker was able to alter DNS records and control a number of internal email accounts, and then \\&#8221;partially compromise\\&#8221; the infrastructure and gain access to document storage.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO says the team was able to contain the attack in time. Assets and crypto wallets, he says, were not compromised.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker is believed to have gained access to customers&#8217; personal data, including email addresses, names, passwords, and home addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he had access to documents uploaded during the KYC process at Liquid has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the exchange urged all users to change their passwords as soon as possible and enable 2FA.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier this year, Ledger, the manufacturer of hardware wallets,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ledger-reports-data-breach-affecting-around-one-million-users\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">disclosed<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> a data breach affecting millions of users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Liquid reported a data breach affecting customer data that occurred on 13 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31974,"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":[1166,1188,888],"class_list":["post-31973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-data-breach","tag-liquid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31975,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31973\/revisions\/31975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}