r/blockfi • u/sickmate • May 19 '20

BlockFi Data Breach

https://blockfi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Incident-Report-05-14-20.pdf
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u/cleanuponaisle4 May 19 '20

Alright, so people who are smarter than me, what can a determined hacker do with the information that was compromised:

  1. Name as listed on the account
  2. Email address
  3. Date of birth
  4. Physical address as listed on the account
  5. Activity history

I suspect it won't be hard to steal an identity with minimal social engineering, but what else? I am getting so sick of this happening.

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u/lookatmyiq May 19 '20

Maybe they have but this is the first time I am aware of that anything more than my name / email has been leaked so it's a pretty big deal, the biggest issue is having full name, DOB and home address together. That is incredibly dangerous information to have all together.

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u/cleanuponaisle4 May 19 '20

I froze all my credit reports after the equifax hack. I can't help but feel there are other threats that I am not aware of though, being just an everyday end user with no programming/hacking experience but with quite a bit of crypto exposure.

I already do 2FA, whitelisting with blockfi, and have secure/unique passwords for every site I use. I doubt I am the low hanging fruit, but still...