White Hat Hacker Aaron Phillips has revealed that Huobi experienced a data breach in 2021, exposing every OTC transaction processed since 2017, totaling over 2TB of data. Additionally, the leaked information includes some user data, information on high-net-worth individuals, and internal technical infrastructure details. Some Huobi users have received notification emails from the white-hat hacker. Huobi responded by stating that the incident occurred on June 22, 2021, due to improper actions by personnel related to the Japanese test environment S3 bucket. They claim that all relevant user information was completely isolated by October 8, 2022. The vulnerability has been fixed, and all related user information has been deleted. Read the full article: [link] Huobi has provided an update, stating that the OTC data mentioned in the article is not actual transaction data but rather test data. The leaked user information only involves 4,000 users. Logs indicate that only the white-hat hacker downloaded the data, and the hacker has confirmed its deletion. Therefore, there was no actual leakage caused.
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