The world’s largest crypto exchange is looking for a user it says has publicly posted the keys to its crypto kingdom. in Court documents Binance, which first filed on April 7, has asked the court to issue a subpoena against GitHub, in an effort to find any information about a user the company said leaked snippets of Binance source code online.
Matthew Keys in the desk I mentioned it for the first time Code leak. According to the email chain filed in court documents, the cryptocurrency exchange originally sent a DMCA notice to Microsoft-owned GitHub in late March, saying that a user was going “bonald” to post the exchange’s copyrighted code. The code warehouse company responded saying that the supposed data for Binance is “no longer available”.
According to the documents, Melanie Baker, the chief legal officer of Binance, asked the court to sign a subpoena That would provide bonald’s real name, address, phone number, email, and any other identifying information.
GitHub page linking to Binance in their original email does not exist anymore. the bonald GitHub account Mentioned in the court documents do not contain any mention of the Binance token. The account has few followers and, according to user activity, has not posted any other code repositories since late last year. It is unclear what fragments of Binance’s source code appeared online and how many people downloaded these files before they were deleted.
The cryptocurrency exchange has not publicly commented on the allegations The code has leaked, and the courts must still grant Binance a subpoena, according to current court filings. Gizmodo has reached out to both GitHub and Binance for comment, but we did not immediately receive a response.
As the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, Binance has every reason to fear that any amount of its source code might be leaked online. Major cryptocurrency heists have caused millions of dollars in losses in the first three months of 2023. Hackers stole $197 million from crypto lending protocol Euler Finance last month. althoug more More hacks targeted DeFi projectsAnd Especially in 2022Binance itself has been the target of the hack. Last October, it was Hit with an exploit created encryption out of thin air. Malicious actors were too Deepfaking caught Binance executives to try to access user accounts.
By the time Binance sent out its DMCA notice, the company was already Reeling from a new regulatory lawsuit. The US CFTC alleged that Binance was illegally increasing its user base in the country without registering its tokens. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao argue that his company blIt blocks US users from using the broader Binance platform, and directs them to use The US arm of Binance.US.
Binance is not the only online entity that finds itself chasing after source code leaks. Twitter also asked the court to issue a subpoena to GitHub To find out who leaked parts of their source code. courts Grant Twitter subpoena request Soon after the registration, Binance may hope to receive the same treatment.