Hacker is ready to sell 1 billion user data from China for 10 BTC

Hacker ChinaDan said he has 1 billion user data from China and is ready to sell all the information for 10 bitcoins (about $ 200,000). The hacker published his offer on the Breached. to forum.

According to journalists, the personal data of the users, which the hacker claimed, is currently available both in the darknet and in the public domain. Therefore, it is impossible to confirm the information that ChinaDan stole the data and is the «original source».

Earlier, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, announced on his official Twitter page that the personal data of users of «one Asian country» had been stolen. This happened due to a bug in the Elastic Search search engine, which was installed by a government agency. The Chinese authorities have not commented on the information leak, but there are rumors that it happened with the help of the Shanghai police.

At the time of writing, it is not known what will happen to the personal data of users. However, this case of information theft is not the only one in the crypto world. For example, the OpenSea trading platform for the sale of non-fungible tokens recently announced the theft of users' personal data — all through the platform’s email partner Customer.io.

An employee of the service illegally used his own access to users' email addresses to create and send automated emails. He was downloading all email addresses to his database and transferring them to a third party. It is not known what is worse — a stolen database from hackers or confidential information in the hands of the government. Last week, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was accused of selling personal data to the US government.