Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
BuyUCoin
Hack or exploit on Jan 25, 2021 · Information Leakage
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
undisclosed
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
User information of BuyUCoin, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, was leaked, and personal data of more than 325,000 people appeared in the database of the hacker organization. According to Indian news media Inc42, a hacker group called ShinyHunters placed a database containing the names, phone numbers, email addresses, tax identification numbers and bank account information of more than 325,000 BuyUCoin users.
Details
- Date
- Jan 25, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Information Leakage
- How in
- Other
- Target
- Centralized exchange
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "BuyUCoin hack, Jan 25, 2021: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht0b3501646f/ (data as of 2026-10-31).