2013 — Coinbase: A flaw in Coinbase's systems cause the information…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
A flaw in Coinbase's systems cause the information of some merchants to be exposed. Any merchant who created a buy now button, donate button, or hosted a payment page using Coinbase's Merchant Tools and posted a public link to it online had the page publicly visible on the internet. The page contained the company name, website, phone number, email address, and mailing address. Additionally, anyone could search for public Coinbase merchant payment pages and collect the email addresses of merch
Root cause
Unintended disclosure