{"id":47337,"date":"2026-01-13T00:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=47337"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:33:50","slug":"fintech-firm-betterment-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-send-fake-10000-crypto-scam-messagesutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/13\/fintech-firm-betterment-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-send-fake-10000-crypto-scam-messagesutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fintech Firm Betterment Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Send Fake $10,000 Crypto Scam Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-180570208\">\n<div id=\"text-180570208\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\tAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: <i>Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking users to send $10,000 to Bitcoin and Ethereum crypto wallets and promising to &#8220;triple your crypto,&#8221; according to a thread on Reddit. The Betterment account says in an X thread that this was an &#8220;unauthorized message&#8221; that was sent via a &#8220;third-party system.&#8221;<\/i> TechCrunch has since confirmed that an undisclosed number of Betterment&#8217;s customers have had their personal information accessed. &#8220;The company said customer names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth were compromised in the attack,&#8221; reports TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p>Betterment said it detected the attack on the same day and &#8220;immediately revoked the unauthorized access and launched a comprehensive investigation, which is ongoing.&#8221; The fintech firm also said it has reached out to the customers targeted by the hackers and &#8220;advised them to disregard the message.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ongoing investigation has continued to demonstrate that no customer accounts were accessed and that no passwords or other log-in credentials were compromised,&#8221; Betterment wrote in the email.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Fintech #Firm #Betterment #Confirms #Data #Breach #Hackers #Send #Fake #Crypto #Scam #Messages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Betterment, a financial app, sent a sketchy-looking notification on Friday asking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47338,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47337\/revisions\/47338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}