Coinbase users urged to change passwords amid complex phishing scam
A prominent crypto trader was the victim of a sophisticated phishing scam when hackers attempted to drain his Coinbase account, in what he calls “one of the most complex scams in crypto that I have seen to date.” On Wednesday, Jacob Canfield took to Twitter to warn Coinbase users of what he thought was “some sort of data breach.” Canfield received a text message saying that his Coinbase two-factor authentication (2FA) had been changed. Shortly thereafter, he received three phone calls from a fake Coinbase customer support line that registered as a San Francisco number. The scammers asked Canfield if he was traveling outside of the US and if he had requested a 2FA and email change. After replying he hadn’t, they sent a text message verifying that they had cancelled the change requests — but forwarded him to a fake Coinbase ‘security’ team to verify his account in order to avoid a 48-hour suspension. “They had my name, my email and my location and sent a ‘verification code’ email fro...