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"U.S. regulators order Voyager Digital to stop 'false and misleading' deposit insurance claims"

2022-07-28 [vendor] Regulators order Voyager to stop saying they're FDIC insured
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Incident Details

One of the ways Voyager Digital drew in customers was by promising that their funds in USD were protected from a collapse of the company by FDIC deposit insurance, which normally applies to bank accounts. When Voyager declared bankruptcy earlier this month, some of their customers were horrified to discover this was not the case.The Federal Reserve and the FDIC sent a cease-and-desist to Voyager, asking them to remove the misleading statements about deposit insurance. It would have been nice if this had come a bit earlier — perhaps before people had deposited money into accounts with the company and could no longer get it out.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Regulatory / legal action
Vendor / Product
Regulators order Voyager to stop saying they're FDIC insured

Timeline

  1. 2022-07-28 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-07-28 Publicly disclosed