Gatehub Crypto Wallet Data Breach Compromises Passwords of 1.4M Users

A security researcher behind the data breach index site "Have I Been Pwned" said that password data and personal information of 2.2 million users of two websites have been dumped online.

On Nov. 19, Ars Technica reported that security researcher Troy Hunt confirmed that the compromised data belonged to accounts of cryptocurrency wallet, GateHub, and RuneScape bot provider EpicBot.

A total of 2.2 million accounts were breachedAccording to Hunt, the first haul included personal information for as many as 1.4 million user accounts from GateHub cryptocurrency wallet.

The second contained data for about 800,000 user accounts on the self-proclaimed world's safest all-in-one RuneScape bot provider, EpicBot.

The stolen information reportedly includes registered email addresses, passwords, two-factor authentication keys, mnemonic phrases, and wallet hashes.

GateHub officials said that the wallet hashes were not accessed, according to what an investigation had suggested.

It is not the first time Gatehub has to endure a data breach.

Gatehub warned that there was a phishing scam campaign targeting its cryptocurrency wallet users.

Cointelegraph contacted Gatehub regarding these latest developments but had yet to receive a response as of press time.

Crypto under attackAs technology and security improve, hackers have gotten corresponding more creative with the scams and hacks they carry out.