I received this email from "news@coinbase.com" today - I do have an account there:<p>-----------<p>"Coinbase" <news@coinbase.com> wrote:<p>In This Issue:
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From this reddit thread[0]:<p>"We believe someone compromised our sendgrid account. We were not actively using this account, but it was configured as a backup. It has since been disabled, and we are working with sendgrid to track down the source of this attack."<p>[0] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31wjt7/coinbase_scam_email_alert/cq5r9gb" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31wjt7/coinbase_sc...</a>
Looks like it's an issue with the sendgrid account they're using.
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