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According to a recent report, the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini suffered from a breach of data and reportedly 5.7 million emails were leaked. While Gemini has stated \u201csome Gemini customers have recently been the target of phishing campaigns,\u201d the exchange insisted that \u201cno Gemini account information or systems were impacted.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gemini Suffers From \u2018Third Party\u2019 Associated Customer Data Leak, Report Claims Documents Show 5.7 Million Accounts Affected<\/h2>\n

On Dec. 14, 2022, the crypto news outlet Cointelegraph published a report<\/a> that claims \u201c5,701,649 lines of information pertaining to Gemini customers\u201d have been leaked by a data breach. The reporter Zhiyuan Sun wrote that the publication reviewed documents that had shown the leak featured \u201cGemini customers\u2019 email addresses and partial phone numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same day, Gemini published a blog post about protecting customers from phishing incidents and it mentions a third party was responsible for the breach. \u201cSome Gemini customers have recently been the target of phishing campaigns that we believe are the result of an incident at a third-party vendor,\u201d the trading platform\u2019s blog post<\/a> discloses. \u201cThis incident led to the collection of Gemini customer email addresses and partial phone numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gemini\u2019s post adds:<\/p>\n

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No Gemini account information or systems were impacted as a result of this third-party incident, and all funds and customer accounts remain secure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gemini is not the first crypto company to suffer from a data leak as Ledger, the hardware wallet manufacturer, had issues with a customer data leak in 2020<\/a>. Last year, the Indian crypto exchange Buyucoin was hacked and reportedly<\/a> sensitive data tied to 325,000 users was allegedly leaked. In July, Celsius explained customer data was leaked before the business filed for bankruptcy and a month earlier, Opensea said it suffered from a leak as well.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Gemini blog post details that the security of customer funds and associated accounts is the exchange\u2019s \u201ctop priority.\u201d The statement written by Gemini also insists that the company does not recommend users rely on \u201cthe secrecy of an email address as a substitute for strong authentication methods.\u201d The company further gives step-by-step instructions on how to reset an email associated with a specific Gemini account.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the Gemini data leak? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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