A British court ordered six cryptocurrency exchanges to reveal the identities of account holders allegedly tied to a 2020 hack of an anonymous English cryptocurrency platform during which thieves stole $10.7 million worth of digital assets.
The exchanges must share the status of the stolen funds, the “know your customer” details of the alleged hackers and their bank account and payment card details, email addresses, residential addresses, phone numbers and bank statements, High Court Justice Christopher Butcher ruled.
His Tuesday order on behalf of a plaintiff whose identity isn’t public – the plaintiff goes by the moniker LMN in court and isn’t associated with a similarly named NFT collection of cartoon lemons – directs the exchanges to cooperate without “avoidable delay.”
The exchanges are Binance, Bitflyer, Payward – which operates as Kraken, Luno PTE, Coinbase Global, and Huobi Global.
