{"id":93505,"date":"2026-01-23T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=93505"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:20:16","slug":"waltio-faces-extortion-following-data-breach-of-50000-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/waltio-faces-extortion-following-data-breach-of-50000-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Waltio Faces Extortion Following Data Breach of 50,000 Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have demanded a ransom from the French cryptocurrency company Waltio after gaining access to some of its users&#8217; data.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Ce vendredi matin, nous avons d\u00e9pos\u00e9 plainte pour tentative d&#8217;extorsion et atteinte \u00e0 un syst\u00e8me de traitement automatis\u00e9 de donn\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Le 21 janvier 2026, nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 destinataire d\u2019une tentative d\u2019extorsion. Celle-ci semble faire suite \u00e0 une attaque particuli\u00e8rement\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Waltio (@Get_Waltio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Get_Waltio\/status\/2014687038742647007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;On January 21, 2026, we were the target of an extortion attempt. This appears to have followed a particularly sophisticated attack that allowed access to certain company data,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The platform offers the ability to calculate capital gains tax on digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/faits-divers\/cryptomonnaies-la-plate-forme-waltio-victime-de-tentative-dextorsion-par-les-mysterieux-shiny-hunters-23-01-2026-KBCBLDCHANDMDIUM6W2JIMJHMM.php\">Le Parisien<\/a>, hackers from the Shiny Hunters group stole data from 50,000 accounts. Waltio serves approximately 150,000 users.<\/p>\n<p>The company assured that the breach is not related to an infrastructure hack\u2014services are operating normally, and client data remains secure.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators obtained tax reports for 2024, which include the account holder&#8217;s email address, profits or losses, and asset balances at the end of the period. Most records contain even more limited information.<\/p>\n<p>According to Waltio, the breach did not affect: passwords, exchange <span data-descr=\"Application Programming Interface \u2014 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0444\u0435\u0439\u0441 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API<\/span> keys, wallet addresses, transaction history, bank accounts, or other data that would allow funds to be moved. The company&#8217;s CEO, Pierre Morizot, emphasized that clients do not disclose any information to the platform other than their email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the main risk of the incident lies in potential fraud through social engineering methods. Hackers could resort to phishing, contacting users while posing as support staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Some perpetrators may use contextual elements (such as the presence of a tax report or summary information) to appear convincing,&#8221; Morizot added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He recommended verifying the authenticity of emails from Waltio by checking the security code and not responding to calls and SMS from supposed company specialists\u2014they do not have clients&#8217; phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the total value of cryptocurrencies stolen through phishing attacks decreased by 83% to $83.85 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-phishing-losses-plunge-83-in-2025\">according to<\/a> SlowMist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have demanded a ransom from the French cryptocurrency company Waltio after gaining access to some of its users&#8217; data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Hackers demand ransom from Waltio after data breach.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1188],"class_list":["post-93505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-data-breach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"310","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Hackers demand ransom from Waltio after data breach.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93505","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=93505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93507,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93505\/revisions\/93507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}