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Risk and financial advisory company Kroll has released additional details regarding the August data breach, which exposed the personal information of FTX bankruptcy claimants. Kroll said the exposed data included coin holdings and balances, which would allow threat actors to pinpoint attractive targets who invest heavily in the cryptocurrency markets.

Financial and risk advisory firm Kroll has suffered a SIM-swapping attack that allowed a threat actor to access files containing personal information of clients of bankrupt cryptocurrency platforms FTX, BlockFi and Genesis. On Saturday, August 19, 2023, an attacker targeted a Kroll employee's T-Mobile US account "In a highly sophisticated SIM swapping attack".

Risk and financial advisory solutions provider Kroll on Friday disclosed that one of its employees fell victim to a "Highly sophisticated" SIM swapping attack."Specifically, T-Mobile, without any authority from or contact with Kroll or its employee, transferred that employee's phone number to the threat actor's phone at their request," it said in an advisory.

Multiple reports on social media warn of a data breach at financial and risk advisory company Kroll that resulted in exposing to an unauthorized third-party the personal data of some credit claimants. Kroll is facilitating claims for insolvent companies FTX, BlockFi, and Genesis Global Holdco.