As its bankruptcy proceedings continue, troubled cryptocurrency lender Celsius has revealed its platform users’ names and trade histories in its most recent court filing. The court petition, which has more than 14,000 pages, included the platform’s former CEO Alex Mashinsky’s trade information. Additional personal information, such as email and home addresses, are not included in the data. Requests For Hiding Identities Rejected The judge repeatedly rejected Celsius’ requests for the identities of its users to be omitted from the court documents because doing so is customary in bankruptcy proceedings during the court case. To help everyone understand the Descriptive Purpose field in our Schedules of Assets and Liabilities and Statements of Financial Affairs that we filed with the Court yesterday, please refer to these explanations, as provided on pg. 18 in the Global Notes section of the documents: pic.twitter.com/jZNfBYPn5i — Celsius (@CelsiusNetwork) October 6, 2022 There were no blockchain transaction records, such as hashes describing specific transactions, among the 18.6 terabytes of user data. However, it included the times and transaction amounts, indicating the possibility of identifying those transactions. Anyone might use this to link the listed users’ cryptocurrency wallets, which were previously anonymous, and view their holdings as well as other transactional data. Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky The court document also des...
