The Cash app has experienced a security breach
What you need to know
- The Cash app has experienced a major security breach.
- The breach has potentially affected over 8 million users.
Users of the Cash app woke up today to an unfortunate surprise.
As reported by TechCrunch, Block, the parent company of the Cash app, has confirmed a data breach affecting potentially over 8 million users. According to the company, a former employee from the company downloaded reports that contained customer information.
Block says that the information was accessed by the former employee in December of last year and that the company has taken measures to prevent another incident.
According to the SEC filing, the customer information that was accessed included names, account numbers, account value, holdings, and trading activity. While the company did not say exactly how many users were affected by the breach, they did say that they are contacting 8.2 million users about it.
The Cash app is extremely popular for those looking to send money to friends and has also made the jump into investments, including Bitcoin.
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