Although Coinsquare, one of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been compromised, the company claims that customer assets are “secure in cold storage and are not at risk.” The exchange, whichh bills itself as “Canada’s trusted platform to securely buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more,” notified customers via email yesterday of a “data incident” in which an unauthorised third party gained access to a customer database containing personal information. The breach exposed “customer names, email addresses, residential addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, device IDs, public wallet addresses, transaction history, and account balances,” according to the email. Coinsquare discovered the breach last week and notified customers via Twitter, despite the fact that the email was sent yesterday.
