Kroll faces class-action suit as FTX creditors allege daily scam emails

FTX creditors claim they are being targeted via phishing emails after their information was leaked in a data breach in August 2023.

Financial and risk advisory firm Kroll is facing a class-action lawsuit for alleged negligent behavior over a data breach that impacted creditors of FTX, BlockFi and Genesis.

The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in a US district court by Hall Attorneys on behalf of FTX customer Jacob Repko and other crypto creditors affected by Kroll’s data breach.

The suit claims that crypto creditors have been facing phishing attacks, a cybercrime where malicious actors try to gain sensitive information, due to a Kroll data breach in August 2023, in which malicious actors managed to obtain personal information of crypto creditors.

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