{"id":71478,"date":"2022-12-15T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T07:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=71478"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:06:31","slug":"gemini-reports-data-breach-affecting-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/gemini-reports-data-breach-affecting-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini reports data breach affecting user data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.gemini.com\/blog\/protecting-our-customers-from-phishing-campaigns\\\">reported<\/a> a data breach following a series of phishing attacks. The platform says client funds are safe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cSome Gemin clients became targets of phishing campaigns, which, in our view, are the result of an incident that occurred at a third-party vendor,\u201d the exchange said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the press release, unauthorized parties gained access to users&#8217; email addresses and partial phone numbers. Account data or internal systems were not compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Clients were advised to enable two-factor authentication or to use hardware keys such as Google Titan Key or YubiKey to protect their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange did not disclose the scale of the breach. According to Cointelegraph, the incident affected more than 5.7 million users. A database dump with a similar number of records has already been posted on specialized forums.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini disclosed the data breach on December 14, but reports of attacks had appeared online several weeks earlier. For example, one user received a &#8216;targeted phishing email&#8217; to the email address tied exclusively to the Winklevoss twins&#8217; Gemini platform.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, the Canadian crypto exchange Coinsquare <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-exchange-coinsquare-acknowledges-user-data-breach\">acknowledged a data breach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our Telegram channel \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Gemini reported a data breach following a series of phishing attacks. The platform says client funds are safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,719],"class_list":["post-71478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-gemini"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478","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=71478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71480,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71478\/revisions\/71480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}