Source: Cointelegraph Original: "{title}"
Dark web threat actors claim to have obtained hundreds of thousands of records from Gemini and Binance users, including names, passwords, and location information, and are selling these data lists on the internet.
According to a blog post by the dark web news site Dark Web Informer on March 27, the latest sale information comes from a threat actor known as AKM69, who claims to possess a large amount of private information from users of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.
“Reportedly, the database for sale contains 100,000 records, each including full name, email, phone number, and location information, primarily from the United States, with a small number of entries from Singapore and the UK,” Dark Web Informer stated.
Source: Dark Web Informer
“The threat actor categorizes this data as part of a broader operation aimed at selling consumer data for crypto-related marketing, scams, or recovery purposes.”
Gemini has not immediately responded to Cointelegraph's request for comment.
A day earlier, Dark Web Informer also reported that another user, kiki88888, proposed selling the email addresses and passwords of Binance users, claiming that the leaked data contained 132,744 lines of information.
Source: Dark Web Informer
Binance told Cointelegraph that the information on the dark web is not the result of a data breach at the exchange, but rather the result of data collected from browser sessions on computers infected by malware.
In a follow-up article, Dark Web Informer also mentioned that the data was stolen because users' technical devices were compromised, not due to a data breach at Binance, stating, “Some of you really need to stop clicking on random junk.”
Source: Dark Web Informer
According to reports at the time, in a similar situation last September, another hacker, FireBear, claimed to have a database containing 12.8 million records stolen from Binance, including last names, first names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, and addresses.
Binance denied these allegations and refuted the hacker's claims of possessing sensitive user data after an internal investigation by its security team, calling it misinformation.
This is not the first cyber threat against users of major cryptocurrency exchanges this month. On March 21, the Australian Federal Police stated that they had to warn 130 individuals about a text message scam targeting crypto users, which disguised itself with the same “sender ID” as legitimate crypto exchanges like Binance.
On March 14, some X users reported another wave of similar scam messages that impersonated Coinbase and Gemini, attempting to lure users into setting up new wallets using pre-generated mnemonic phrases controlled by scammers.
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