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COINSECURE Private Key Leak

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Incident Overview

A failed cold storage restoration exercise seems to have exposed private keys intended for offline storage (effectively making them online). However, the CEO has expressed an insider’s involvement. Police found private keys exposed online for more than 12 hours.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttp://archive.is/AZnGe (opens in a new tab)

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