A group of six cryptocurrency owners filed a class action lawsuit against Coinbase, claiming the company wrongfully locked them out of their accounts for periods of up to several months. The group is seeking damages of more than $5 million for themselves and any other Coinbase user who registered an account in the last four years, and who likewise got barred from accessing their account for a prolonged period of time.
In a complaint filed Friday in San Francisco federal court, Jospeh Treseder of Oklahoma claims he deposited $30,000 last December to purchase the cryptocurrency XRP but that, a month later, he received an error message saying his login credentials were not valid. Despite phoning and emailing the company multiple times, and completing requested measures to verify his identity, Treseder says it took Coinbase months to restore the account.
Treseder and the others say being frozen out of their accounts prevented them for trading or withdrawing their funds and, in some cases,
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