ShellCodeX Breach Report
BTC-Alpha Data Breach
btc-alpha.com
Verified breach
Passwords exposed
Accounts exposed
362,426
Breach date
02 Nov 2021
Added to tracker
27 Jan 2022
Data classes
4
What happened
In November 2021, the crypto exchange platform BTC-Alpha suffered a ransomware attack data breach after which customer data was publicly dumped. The impacted data included 362k email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as PBKDF2 hashes.
Exposed data
Email addresses
IP addresses
Passwords
Usernames
Recommended actions
- Change your BTC-Alpha password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
- Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing BTC-Alpha — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
Check on HIBP
