Coinbase Trading Vulnerability Exposed by Repeat White-Hat Hacker
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was notified of a vulnerability in its trading systems on Friday afternoon by the pseudonymous white hat hacker "Tree of Alpha," and temporarily suspended trading on its new Advanced Trading platform.
After the initial tweet sparked alarm in the crypto community, Tree of Alpha posted a follow-on Tweet saying, "No actual Coinbase storages are impacted.".Within two hours of the Tree of Alpha's initial tweet, the Coinbase Support Twitter account announced that, due to technical reasons, Coinbase was disabling trading on its new Advanced Trading platform.
