KYC Cryptocurrency exchange data stolen, allegedly for sale on the Darknet. “Dread”, a darknet market, currently has user data from KYC procedures from top cryptocurrency exchanges for sale. “ExploitDOT”, the vendor, is attempting to sell this data to the highest bidder – included in the data is the information required by most cryptocurrency exchanges to gain access to trading on the platform.
The hacker has an ad that has been online since last summer. The ad claims that the hacker had stolen documents used in KYC checks including identity cards, drivers’ licenses, state IDs, and other pertinent information from users of top exchanges such as Bittrex, Poloniex, Bitfinex, and Binance.
The data is up for grabs at $10 per 100 documents or more, with discounts applied for those who buy in bulk. Buy 25,000 and that’s $1 per 1,000 documents.
CCN has been able to independently verify images of these documents.
Binance has not commented on this matter.
Binance has been lauded in the past for its security practices. Most recently, they ruined the plans of the Cryptopia hacker by freezing the stolen cryptocurrency, and last year stopped a large attack on Syscoin (SYS).
It is not yet clear if this leak is related to the recent “Collection #1” 87GB database leak which includes over 700 million email addresses and 21 million passwords.
What do you think? Our own Matt is not a fan of exchanges that require KYC. Unfortunately, it seems like most of us use Binance, at least, and so could be affected. What do you plan on doing to protect yourself? Maybe we should all swing to wallets. Let us know on our Facebook page.
