GateHub Data Breach

What happened

In October 2019, 1.4M accounts from the cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub were posted to a popular hacking forum. GateHub had previously acknowledged a data breach in June, albeit with a smaller number of impacted accounts. Data from the breach included email addresses, mnemonic phrases, encrypted master keys, encrypted recovery keys and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your GateHub 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 GateHub — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.