Millions of credentials stolen from the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service and gaming bot provider EpicBot were reportedly posted on popular hacking forum site RaidForums last month, along with other personal information.
Roughly 2.2 million accounts were affected – 1,408,078 of which belong GateHub users, while 816,662 were created by EpicBot users, according to security researcher Troy Hunt, who has added the dumped data sets to his Have I Been Pwned? website.
London-based GateHub, whose service allows users to store, send and exchange Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Augur cryptocurrencies, acknowledged last June in a company blog post that it had suffered a data breach in which a malicious actor infiltrated a database holding valid access tokens. However, the company said that only 18,473 accounts were potentially affected and only 103 XRP (Ripple) Ledger wallets suffered losses. These numbers pale in comparison to the 1.4 million accounts found posted on the hacking forum, which suggests a possible discrepancy.
On his website, Hunt said the compromised data set includes email addresses, mnemonic phrases, wallet hashes and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. GateHub, ho ..
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