Chainalysis attacker accessed customer users' names and roles; federal agencies are among its biggest customers

The blockchain analytics firm, whose federal contracts total $135.4 million since fiscal 2020, hasn't said whether government users were among the accounts accessed.

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Primary source: chainalysis.com

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The accessed data links named users to their roles inside customer organizations, and those customers include the IRS, FBI and ICE.

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Chainalysis said an outside attacker gained unauthorized access to its systems and internal tools and accessed customer data including user IDs, full names, email addresses and organization role labels.…

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