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Bittrex ‘Leaks’ User Passports In Support Emails, Says Russian Telegram Channel

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Dissent

William Suberg reports:

Bittrex is reportedly leaking users’ passport scans and photographs as KYC emails from customer support contain dire security errors.

As reports a Russian-language news channel on Telegram, users who go through the exchange’s manual KYC verification but are rejected receive an email from customer support.

Along with the private documents the user supplies, the rejection email also contains those of several other rejected users, Kriptach states.

Read more on Cointelegraph.

h/t, @plaintech


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