Did Celsius filing last year expose customer’s personal details? New report suggests ‘risk of identity theft’

Final yr, within the Celsius Community chapter case, a doc revealed blockchain data that may have uncovered person crypto wallets. In response to The Block Analysis and Nansen have labored collectively to substantiate this and recognized 15,000+ Celsius customers’ private wallets. These held numerous property, ENS names, NFTs, and decentralized trade transactions. Nansen  matched simply over 127,000 transactions within the submitting to blockchain transactions from 52,057 distinctive wallets.

They filtered out trade and decentralized wallets, leaving 15,759 attainable private wallets owned by named clients. These wallets presently maintain $900 million in cryptocurrency, peaking at $3 billion throughout Luna’s worth surge in April 2022. The choose within the Celsius chapter case selected to not launch buyer names together with their addresses. They wrote that it was inadequate to “expose clients to dangers of id theft or private hazard.”

Nansen wrote on Twitter, “When Celsius filed for chapter, their submitting additionally included a major quantity of blockchain information that associated to their customers, doubtlessly leaking a few of their buyer’s wallets. This sadly confirms that the Celsius submitting did leak a few of their buyer’s private crypto wallets.”

The analysis revealed that about 1,600 private wallets are related to Ethereum Identify Service domains. This implies customers have linked their wallets to readable names like instance.eth, typically for on-line presence. This means that these wallets most likely belong to individuals energetic within the crypto group.

Celsius, filed for chapter in July 2022. That they had $1 billion to $10 billion in property and money owed, plus 100,000 collectors. Court docket papers revealed a $1.2 billion hole of their funds. They owe $5.5 billion ($4.7 billion from clients), however solely have $4.3 billion in principally hard-to-sell property.