{"id":85791,"date":"2023-10-16T18:38:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85791"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:28:00","slug":"trueusd-customers-warned-of-potential-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/trueusd-customers-warned-of-potential-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"TrueUSD customers warned of potential data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TrueUSD stablecoin issuer said that a security breach at its former banking-services provider TrueCoin risked disclosure of some customers&#8217; personal information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TUSD team was informed by TrueCoin that they received a third-party vendor&#8217;s notification that the vendor\u2019s Security Team detected \u201can anomalous account change within [TrueCoin\u2019s] organization made by a compromised support vendor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TrueUSD (@tusdio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tusdio\/status\/1713904035034718357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on September 20. An \u201can anomalous change made by a compromised support vendor\u201d was detected in TrueCoin&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n<p>Because the company operated TrueUSD until July 13, 2023, it held certain <span data-descr=\"Know Your Customer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">KYC<\/span>-data, including users&#8217; first and last names, email addresses and phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, names of banks, transaction histories and public blockchain addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this information could potentially have fallen into the hands of malicious actors.<\/p>\n<p>Internal TrueCoin systems were not compromised. Following notification of the incident, the cybersecurity team took steps to prevent further unauthorized access and opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives said that the TrueUSD system was not breached and the TUSD reserves were not affected by the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TUSD system is SECURE and not attacked. Both TUSD system and TUSD&#8217;s reserves are UNAFFECTED.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TrueUSD (@tusdio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tusdio\/status\/1713904041007431709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, they advised users to monitor their personal accounts for any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>In late September, personal information of some users of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nansen-warns-of-a-user-data-leak\">Nansen analytics platform<\/a> leaked publicly. The leak also occurred due to the compromise of a third-party data provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TrueUSD stablecoin issuer reported a security breach at its former banking-services provider TrueCoin, which threatened the disclosure of some customers&#8217; personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85792,"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":[1111,1188,966],"class_list":["post-85791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-breach","tag-trueusd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85791","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=85791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85793,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85791\/revisions\/85793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}