{"id":17038,"date":"2021-04-12T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci028073a4a0002496"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:32:42","slug":"paxful-hacked-user-data-offer-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/paxful-hacked-user-data-offer-is-fake","title":{"rendered":"Paxful: Hacked User Data Offer Is \u201cFake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, a user called \u201cMafufi\u201d took to stolen data marketplace RaidForums to offer user and employee data from cryptocurrency exchange Paxful including their \u201cfirst name, last name, date of birth, gender, address, phone number, email [and] passwords,\u201d in exchange for 1 BTC. <\/p>\n

Shortly afterward, Paxful CEO Ray Youssef took to Twitter<\/a> to clarify that the offered information could not really be for sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny KYC data is never on our servers. We don\u2019t take asking for people\u2019s identities lightly,\u201d Youssef tweeted. \u201c1 BTC for millions of users? We get this leak spam all the time. Always fake. No user data leaked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Youssef went on to write that he was \u201cstill confirming if some employee data was leaked from [a] third-party payroll site.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the forum post received significant attention<\/a> from the Bitcoin community, which is particularly adverse to the idea of user data being collected, shared or sold without consent. As a decentralized, middleman-free platform, the ultimate vision for Bitcoin is to enable users to operate pseudonymously and without their private information being recorded or shared. Furthermore, a long history of hacks and scams<\/a> in the space has led to innumerable funds being lost and potential harm to data hack victims who would be known to hold significant amounts of bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent forum post offering the personal data of millions of Paxful users has been called \u201cfake\u201d by the exchange\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":10531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[594,1226],"class_list":{"0":"post-17038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-hack","9":"tag-paxful"},"author_data":{"id":2705,"name":"Peter Chawaga","nicename":"peter-chawaga","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/peterc-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/un-investigating-north-koreas-crypto-crimes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}