Bits of Gold, a cryptocurrency brokerage company, announced that the personal data of about 200,000 of its clients was stolen by hackers, following a security breach that affected an external data analysis network.
The Tel Aviv-based company said that a hacker was able to gain unauthorized access to customers' names, national ID numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, in addition to their bank account details and public wallet addresses, according to what was published by the cryptocurrency website CoinDesk.
She added: “As soon as the incident was discovered, we blocked access and disconnected the system from information sources, and thus this access ended.”
The company confirmed that the hack did not lead to the disclosure of any funds, private keys, passwords, verification codes (CVV), or scanned copies of identity documents.
The preliminary results of the investigation indicated that the attack may be part of a broader global incident that affected other companies at the same time.
This is the third data breach announced in the cryptocurrency sector within one week. The data of about 40,000 users of the “SafePal” wallet was stolen on Sunday, after a security breach was suffered by an external provider.
In a similar attack, the personal data of about 14,000 Trezor wallet customers was exposed on August 13, after the ShipMonk company, which provides order execution services, was hacked.
Bits of Gold said: “Our security team has begun a comprehensive investigation into the incident, with the assistance of a company specialized in investigating and responding to cyber incidents,” stressing that “your digital assets and funds are safe and were not part of the incident.”
Bits of Gold was founded in 2013, and was the first cryptocurrency company in Israel to obtain a permanent license to provide financial services. It is led by CEO Yuval Rawash, and its number of clients exceeds 250,000.
The company warned its customers of possible fraud attempts, stressing that it will not ask them for passwords, verification codes, private keys, or money transfers.
The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, will head to Iraq tomorrow (Wednesday) at the head of a high-level parliamentary delegation, to hold discussions on regional developments.
The official Iranian News Agency (IRNA) reported today that Ghalibaf will leave tomorrow morning heading to Iraq to discuss regional developments, ways to enhance strategic cooperation between Tehran and Baghdad, and joint mechanisms to contribute to consolidating stability and security in West Asia.
The Iranian Parliament Speaker is scheduled to meet with a number of senior Iraqi officials, where he will discuss with them the development of bilateral relations, border security, combating terrorism, expanding economic cooperation, and implementing joint agreements between the two countries, according to IRNA.
This visit comes at a time when Iraq is facing pressure from Washington to disarm the powerful armed factions supported by Iran, which have gained great political and financial influence in the country.
Baghdad had given the armed groups loyal to Iran until September 30 to disarm, a date that coincides with the end of the mission of the international anti-ISIS coalition led by the United States.
Iran has been at war with the United States since the American-Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28 led to the outbreak of a conflict that has spread throughout the Middle East.
Qalibaf's visit to Iraq also comes two days after the office of the Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, and the residence of the Director of Local Intelligence in Erbil, were targeted by two drones that Erbil said were launched from Iran.
The Counter-Terrorism Service in the Kurdistan Region said the day before yesterday: “At dawn today (Monday), August 17, 2026, and at exactly 00:28 (21:28 GMT Sunday), two explosive drones of the type (Hadid-110) were directed from the Iranian border, towards the headquarters of the private office of the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region and the residence of the Director of the Protection Agency in the Birmam District in Erbil Governorate,” without causing any casualties.
For his part, Barzani said: “Today, my personal office and the residence of the head of the Parastan Agency were subjected to Iranian drone attacks,” considering that “these reckless and unacceptable attacks constitute a dangerous escalation and a direct threat to the security and stability of the region.”
Yesterday evening, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi directed an investigation into the attack, which Iran considered “suspicious.”
In parallel, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry reported in a statement that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi informed his Iraqi counterpart, Fuad Hussein, that “he has no information indicating that the attacks were launched from Iranian territory,” and that “there is no justification for such actions.”
According to the statement, Araqchi stressed “the positive and strong relations between the Iranian government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, especially with the two main parties in the region.” One of them is the Kurdistan Democratic Party, to which Barzani belongs.
Araqchi said, “Kurdish friends must be careful of the tricks of the false flag aimed at sowing discord among neighbors.”
In turn, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei yesterday condemned the attack, which he described as “a highly suspicious development that requires careful attention.”
“Dangerous escalation”
The Kurdistan region, located in northern Iraq, which has enjoyed self-rule since 1991 and is close to the United States and Western countries, adopts a careful approach in managing its relations with neighboring Iran.
Since the outbreak of the Middle East war at the end of February with an American-Israeli attack on Iran, the region has been bombed more than a thousand times, according to local authorities.
The strikes were distributed between attacks announced by Iraqi armed factions on American interests, and Iranian strikes on sites of the Iranian Kurdish armed opposition that have been stationed for years in northern Iraq.
The president of the region, Nechirvan Barzani, said in a statement yesterday that the attack constituted a “dangerous escalation,” calling on the federal government to “exercise its responsibilities and constitutional obligations in protecting the security and stability of the country,” and to take the necessary measures “to ensure that such attacks are not repeated.”
The strikes come at a time when American pressure is increasing on Baghdad to control the weapons of pro-Iranian factions, which is what Al-Zaidi pledged to implement since he took office in mid-May.
Al-Zaidi gave the factions a deadline until September 30 to give up their weapons, coinciding with the end of the mission of the international coalition led by Washington to fight ISIS, whose presence in northern Iraq some factions rely on to justify keeping their weapons.
However, some of them still refuse to cooperate in this field.
Yesterday, the US special envoy to Syria and Iraq, Tom Barrack, condemned the attack on the Kurdistan region, considering it a “direct threat to regional stability.”
He affirmed his “full support” for Al-Zaidi “in his efforts to restore Iraq’s full sovereignty and ensure that all weapons and security forces remain under the authority of the Iraqi state.”
