- FTX shut down in 2021, but continued to generate data in the backend
- Contact information on more than 35,000 FTX Japan users found leaking
- The company could face regulatory pressure as a result
FTX Japan, the Japanese arm of the dead cryptocurrency exchange FTX, leaked sensitive data on more than 35,000 users, putting them at risk of phishing and identity theft, experts have warned.
Researchers at Cybernews said they found an exposed database with 26 million files, including usernames and real names, email addresses, postal addresses, FTX account IDs, and detailed transaction logs including information on borrowing and lending, cryptocurrencies, collateral, margin rates, and risk flags.
The files are relatively fresh, too, as some of the…
