.ArkhamIntel already angered the crypto community Monday with a bounty service for unmasking wallets. Then came allegations it’s been leaking users’ email addresses. realDannyNelson reports
, angering privacy-focused crypto advocates.
The issue stems from the way Arkham set up its weblink referral program. Users of Arkham’s wallet tracking dashboard can invite others onto the platform by sharing their unique referral URL. Those URLs appear to end with a meaningless jumble of characters. In reality, they’re an easy-to-decipher version of the user’s email address written in Base64, which isArkham Intelligence builds a popular service for tracking crypto transactions and identifying the owners of crypto wallets.
Regarding the separate issue with referrals, anyone who shared their Arkham link may have inadvertently put their anonymity at risk. The pseudonymous m4gicpotato, a contributor to the privacy blockchain Beam, “As a staunch privacy advocate, I believe these tools infringe upon user privacy,” m4gicpotato said in a Telegram interview with CoinDesk. They said they started looking into Arkham after Binance announced it would host the public sale of ARKM, which Arkham described as an intel-to-earn token.
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