Offer to sell the data of 13 million Binance users has appeared on the dark web
The seller claims that the data was obtained as a result of a leak in August of this year
24.09.2024 - 09:15
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What’s new? On one of the forums on the dark web, an offer was made to sell the data of users of the largest centralized crypto exchange (CEX) Binance. As the author of the ad writes, the database was obtained as a result of a leak in August this year. It contains the data of 12,8 million users, including first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, residential addresses, and zip codes.
What else is known? The user claims that the database can be bought in whole or in part by writing to him in Telegram. On the forum, he also posted examples of the information contained in the database.
News about data leaks from Binance appeared earlier. So, in December last year on the same dark web forum, an anonymous person offered to buy access to a special Binance panel, through which law enforcers can request data about users.
In January, the media reported about the leak of “highly sensitive technical information,” including code cache and internal passwords, which had been available on GitHub for several months. The exchange itself said at the time that the information was outdated and that there was no risk in having it in the public domain.
In February, an advertisement appeared on a dark web forum for the sale of Binance customers’ identification data, which were specified during KYC verification. The seller was later banned from the forum, and Binance explained that the accounts have several protection mechanisms against unauthorized access.
At the time of writing, the exchange has not commented in any way on the information about a possible new leak on its social networks. In a comment to ForkLog, a Binance representative denied the news about the leak.
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