Bitmex snet an email with CC to own customers. Hundreds emails exposed.

[cryptothreads]

If using bitmex change your password and remove funds.

More like change your emails. Passwords aren't leaked so don't worry, funds are safe. But sure changing password also helps, just to be sure.

But anyway, this is a perfect example of why you should use separate email accounts for your individual exchange accounts. Expect to see the leaked email accounts to be receiving a good number of spam and scam emails.

If Bitmex was stupid enough to leak their entire client base of emails via a rookie mistake, I'm not sure they are going to be taking their customer security and privacy very well.

I'd update your password and add 2fa just in case, especially if you have funds in the wallet - 2 minute of effort could save you a lot of money in the future.

Anyway, enjoy the new crypto spam emails guys, I have no doubt that these emails are going to be added to a new database and marketed as crypto investors.

I think these emails have been made public and will put a lot of risk to investors because every day there will be hundreds of projects sending us emails and that's really annoying. I am also a victim in this exchange and hope that Bitmex can allow users to change emails because I do not want to receive spam. Currently, other exchanges such as Okex also allow users to change email if their account is related to Bitmex.

In my opinion this will be an issue that will be mentioned a lot and Bitmex deserves complaints from investors because Bitmex makes us no longer safe.

[nreal]

It is unbelievable that a large exchange like Bitmex is so weak in terms of security, Previously Binance with hacked millions of dollars and exposed user information. I wonder, do those exchanges really put security first?

[mk4]

i assume somebody's getting fired over this. it's a pretty unbelievable level of incompetence.

Twitter rumours(so obviously take it with a huge grain of salt) has it that the person responsible for this did get fired. I'm not surprised because this sure is a very amateur mistake for such a wealthy service as BitMEX. Like what the heck, they sent their emails carelessly in a way that even email spammers actually did it better.

[GreatArkansas]

There was an e-mail sent to my email yesterday regarding of this issue.
The title of the e-mail is Statement on the Email Privacy Issue Impacting Our Users.
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The e-mail was sent has content about the the recent issue of bitmex which was the email addresses exposed.
There was also instruction how we can be safe of this issue like it was stated and much suggested to create a new account with new email address, setting up 2FA, etc.

I also got curious when they give some link to their website especially to the register page, there is a referral link embedded to the e-mail was sent. That's why I started to think it this e-mail is not legit

[Saint-loup]

There was an e-mail sent to my email yesterday regarding of this issue.
The title of the e-mail is Statement on the Email Privacy Issue Impacting Our Users.
 .
The e-mail was sent has content about the the recent issue of bitmex which was the email addresses exposed.
There was also instruction how we can be safe of this issue like it was stated and much suggested to create a new account with new email address, setting up 2FA, etc.

I also got curious when they give some link to their website especially to the register page, there is a referral link embedded to the e-mail was sent. That's why I started to think it this e-mail is not legit

Thank you for having reported it here. For the beginners, be careful domain names like "@bitmex-explained.com" etc aren't legit, the only true one is "@bitmex.com"

[audaciousbeing]

Be careful out there.

Bitmex sent email exposing all email accounts by cc.

More here:
https://twitter.com/cryptochangex/status/1190208624209125376?s=19


If using bitmex change your password and remove funds.

This is one error that should not have happened under any guise but yes it has happened. The only thing people need to worry about is be more care when they receive mail from Bitmex and try to double check and confirm before acting on such mail and at the same time be weary of mails promising some unimaginable returns without taking time to understand why you are receiving such message in the myriad of people that could be interested in such "opportunity".