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"Coinbase Reaches $100 Million Settlement With New York Regulators"

2023-01-04 [vendor] Coinbase
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Incident Details

Coinbase agreed to a $100 million settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services over charges that the company violated anti-money laundering laws by performing insufficient background checks. Coinbase will pay a $50 million fine, and has committed to spending another $50 million to strengthen its KYC program.Early last year, Coinbase was ordered by regulators to hire an outside monitor to oversee compliance. Under the settlement agreement, Coinbase will be required to continue the monitoring for at least another year as it works to improve its compliance.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Regulatory / legal action
Vendor / Product
Coinbase

Timeline

  1. 2023-01-04 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-01-04 Publicly disclosed