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Chris Clements Discusses MFA Glitch Leads to 6K+ Coinbase Customers Getting Robbed

Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture at Cerberus Sentinel, comments on MFA Glitch. Coinbase suspects phishing led to attackers getting personal details needed to access wallets but also blamed a flaw in its SMS-based 2FA.

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By Lisa Vaas

October 1, 2021

“The decentralized nature of most coins means that if criminals are successful in stealing them, there’s very little chance you will be able to recover your losses…

…As such, it’s important that users of cryptocurrency study up and implement appropriate opsec to protect themselves from the inevitable attacks, including ensuring that any computing devices or smartphones are hardened and up to date with the latest security patches and implementing strong unique passwords as well as multi-factor authentication controls such as TOTP or hardware security keys like FIDO.  Finally, cold wallets kept completely offline are useful for limiting much easier online attack vectors.”

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